[Cocci] const int types

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:22 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > I thought that
> > (s)size_t may be equal to int, long or long long depending on current
> > arch and command line arguments.
> 
> Sorry, but I'm still not sure what Coccinelle is supposed to do with the 
> information about the size of size_t.

E.g. this one:

@@
ssize_t x;
expression e;
@@

(
 x
|
*e
)
 = read(...)

Result of read(2) must be stores in ssize_t.  If int is the same as
ssize_t then it's OK, otherwise it is a bug.


Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy