[Cocci] simple problem

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:

> On 03/27/2012 11:14 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/27/2012 12:07 AM, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
>>>> On 03/26/12 23:56, ron minnich wrote:
>>>>> @@
>>>>> identifier f;
>>>>> type T;
>>>>> identifer e;
>>>>> @@
>>>>> T f(...){<...
>>>>> -e = i2c_add_adapter(...);
>>>>> ...>}
>>>>
>>>> You wrote "identifer" instead of "identifier" :)
>>> Julia, shouldn't spatch --parse-cocci complain about that?
>>
>> The parser considers it to be a typedef.
>>
>> This seems to be a pretty common mistake.  Perhaps it should generate a
>> warning for this specific misspelling.
> Did that change recently? Because I'm used to write the typedef
> explicitly, e.g. in this case I would write it as:
> typedef identifer;
> identifer e;

It's not necessary, and has never been necessary.  It is only needed when 
the typedef shows up in a cast.

julia