Re: [Cocci] git-coccinelle: adjustments for array.cocci?

It can determine the type of t->entries if it has access to the definition
of the type of t.

I would like to point another implementation detail out.

Another known function was also an update candidate.
https://github.com/git/git/blob/9a1180fc304ad9831641e5788e9c8d3dfc10ccdd/pretty.c#L90

elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/git/lokal> spatch contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci pretty.c
…

@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ static void setup_commit_formats(void)
        commit_formats_len = ARRAY_SIZE(builtin_formats);
        builtin_formats_len = commit_formats_len;
        ALLOC_GROW(commit_formats, commit_formats_len, commit_formats_alloc);
-       memcpy(commit_formats, builtin_formats,
-              sizeof(*builtin_formats)*ARRAY_SIZE(builtin_formats));
+       COPY_ARRAY(commit_formats, builtin_formats,
+                  ARRAY_SIZE(builtin_formats));

        git_config(git_pretty_formats_config, NULL);
 }

This patch generation can work based on the following SmPL code combination.

“…
expression n, x;
…
-      , (n) * \( sizeof(T) \| sizeof(*(x)) \)
…”

The asterisk should refer to a pointer expression within a sizeof operator.
I got informed that the semantic patch language would support such a restriction.

Thus I have tried out to specify the corresponding metavariables in this way.

“…
expression n;
expression* x;
…”

But the shown diff hunk is not regenerated by this SmPL script variant.
How should an array like “builtin_formats” (which is even defined in the same function)
be treated by the Coccinelle software in such use cases?

Regards,
Markus