Evolutionary development of a semantic patch using Coccinelle [LWN.net]

Evolutionary development of a semantic patch using Coccinelle

Posted Mar 31, 2010 4:06 UTC (Wed) by wsa (guest, #52415)
In reply to: Evolutionary development of a semantic patch using Coccinelle by neilbrown
Parent article: Evolutionary development of a semantic patch using Coccinelle

Grepping is possible, too. You can use '*' in the first column to just display a match. So, a general approach would be:

@@
// This metavariable has a defined type
struct foo *var;
@@
*   var->next

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