[Linux-kernel-mentees] [Cocci] [PATCH] parsing_c: Add space for tokens after *

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Jaskaran Singh wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 11:40 +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > In certain cases, there is no space added after the Pointer type.
> >
> > Will such a pretty-printing detail matter also for the clarification
> > of
> > a topic like “Make change influence configurable for coding style
> > rules”?
> > https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/37
> >
>
> Not sure what you mean. If you mean to say that the result should
> conform to the Linux coding style (i.e. the result should be "const
> char * const * y" with spaces et al intact), that seems like something
> for a different patch, right? Whether you want Coccinelle to conform to
> Linux coding style or not, the space should be added either way.


The option --smpl-spacing should address this issue, by preservign the
spacing illustrated in the semantic patch.  I don't know if it does that
in this case.

julia

>
> Cheers,
> Jaskaran.
>
> > Regards,
> > Markus
>
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