Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: semantic patch to check for inappropriate do_div() calls

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > +virtual context
> > +virtual org
> > +virtual report
>
> The operation mode âpatchâ is not supported here.
> Should the term âsemantic code searchâ be used instead in the subject again?

Doesn't matter,

>
>
> > +@@
> > +(
> > +* do_div(f, l);
> > +|
> > +* do_div(f, ul);
> > +|
> > +* do_div(f, ul64);
> > +|
> > +* do_div(f, sl64);
> > +)
>
> I suggest to avoid the specification of duplicate SmPL code.
>
> +@@
> +*do_div(f, \( l \| ul \| ul64 \| sl64 \) );

I don't se any point to this.  The code matched will be the same in both
cases.  The original code is quite readable, without the ugly \( etc.

>
> Will any more case distinctions become helpful?
>
>
> > +@script:python depends on report@
> > +p << r.p;
> > +@@
> > +
> > +msg="WARNING: WARNING: do_div() does a 64-by-32 division, which may truncation the divisor to 32-bit"
> > +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)
>
> Please improve the message construction.

Please make more precise comments (I already made some suggestions, so it
doesn't matter much here, but "please improve" does not provide any
concrete guidance).

julia