Re: coccinelle: merge two rules from flex_alloc.cocci

If you could have some before/after numbers, that would be cool.

Does any test infrastructure (or benchmarks) exist which you would trust for
corresponding comparisons of software run time characteristics?

If you collect your patches into one series, you could at least do measurements
before/after the series.

How do you think about to check possible improvements by each presented patch
according to affected SmPL scripts individually?

Or if you could make some other sort of claim around "this shouldn't
affect this-or-that because so-and-so".

I try to avoid such claims.
But I provided specific information in my patch descriptions.
Do you find any details reasonable there?

Do you mean whether I would like to clarify the risks I see, or do you
mean whether I would like you to clarify which you see?

Both. - The discussion will depend also on your change acceptance and desire
to extend development in the shown software design directions.

I've tried to clarify the one I see -- based on passively observing cocci-related
patches floating around this list.

Thanks for your interest.

If you see other potential risks, feel free to mention them.

I would prefer a more optimistic view while my software development
experiences can influence this considerably.

You seem to know lots more than I do about these things.

This can be. - But I hope that you can get further inspirations and ideas
if you would find any of the published development activities interesting enough.

Regards,
Markus