On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 07:40:49PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > You can look for explicitly "if (oidcmp(...))" though. I don't know if
> > you can catch *any* use which degrades to boolean outside of an if
> > statement, but I wouldn't expect there to be too many of those?
>
> Yeah, that was my thought, too. And I've been trying this all afternoon
> without success. Why doesn't this work:
>
> @@
> expression a, b;
> @@
> - if (oidcmp(a, b))
> + if (!oideq(a, b))
>
> I get:
>
> Fatal error: exception Failure("minus: parse error: \n = File
> \"contrib/coccinelle/oideq.cocci\", line 21, column 0, charpos =
> 221\n around = '', whole content = \n")
>
> If I do:
>
> - if (oidcmp(a, b)) { ... }
>
> that seems to please the parser for the minus line. But I cannot include
> the "..." on the plus line. Clearly the "..." part should be context,
> but I can't seem to find the right syntax.
This almost works:
@@
expression a, b;
statement s;
@@
- if (oidcmp(a, b)) s
+ if (!oideq(a, b)) s
It generates this, for example:
diff -u -p a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static struct commit_list *skip_away(str
for (i = 0; cur; cur = cur->next, i++) {
if (i == index) {
- if (oidcmp(&cur->item->object.oid, current_bad_oid))
+ if (!oideq(&cur->item->object.oid, current_bad_oid))
return cur;
if (previous)
return previous;
which is what we want. But it also generates this:
diff -u -p a/bundle.c b/bundle.c
--- a/bundle.c
+++ b/bundle.c
@@ -369,25 +369,11 @@ static int write_bundle_refs(int bundle_
* commit that is referenced by the tag, and not the tag
* itself.
*/
- if (oidcmp(&oid, &e->item->oid)) {
- /*
- * Is this the positive end of a range expressed
- * in terms of a tag (e.g. v2.0 from the range
- * "v1.0..v2.0")?
- */
- struct commit *one =
lookup_commit_reference(the_repository,
- &oid);
+ if (!oideq(&oid, &e->item->oid)) {
+ struct commit
*one=lookup_commit_reference(the_repository,
+ &oid);
struct object *obj;
-
if (e->item == &(one->object)) {
- /*
- * Need to include e->name as an
- * independent ref to the pack-objects
- * input, so that the tag is included
- * in the output; otherwise we would
- * end up triggering "empty bundle"
- * error.
- */
obj = parse_object_or_die(&oid, e->name);
obj->flags |= SHOWN;
add_pending_object(revs, obj, e->name);
So I really do want some way of saying "all of the block, no matter what
it is". Or of leaving it out as context.
-Peff