[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2 12/25] parsing_c: cpp_token_c: Introduce MACROANNOTATION hint

[Jaskaran Singh]

A better way of denoting attributes is to pass attribute information
from SmPL to the C parser. However, a temporary solution is to introduce
a MACROANNOTATION hint to cpp_token_c.ml so that the parser can identify
attributes easily.

This hint can be used as follows in standard.h, the user provided
macro-defs file or the given C file itself:

	#define __attribute_name MACROANNOTATION

By default, __attribute_name would be identified as a comment. Using the
above hint, __attribute_name would be identified as an attribute and
transformations from SmPL would be performed as if __attribute_name is
an attribute, not a comment.

Signed-off-by: Jaskaran Singh <jaskaransingh7654321 at gmail.com>
---
 parsing_c/cpp_token_c.ml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/parsing_c/cpp_token_c.ml b/parsing_c/cpp_token_c.ml
index 425234e8..0654be26 100644
--- a/parsing_c/cpp_token_c.ml
+++ b/parsing_c/cpp_token_c.ml
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ let assoc_hint_string = [
   "YACFE_END_ATTRIBUTE" , HintEndAttribute;
   "YACFE_IDENT_BUILDER" , HintMacroIdentBuilder;
 
+  "MACROANNOTATION"   , HintAttribute;
+
   "MACROSTATEMENT"   , HintMacroStatement; (* backward compatibility *)
 ]
 
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