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On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 19:45 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
> A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:27:53PM -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> >> Has anyone else looked at using Coccinelle/spatch[1] on CPython source
> >> code?
> > 
> > For an excellent explanation of Coccinelle, see
> > <http://lwn.net/Articles/315686/>.
> 
> For those who have not looked, Coccinelle means ladybug (a bug-eating 
> bug ;-) in French. Its principle use to to take C code and a SmPl file 
> of high-level patch descriptions (fixers, in 2to3 talk) and produce a 
> standard diff file. I wonder if this could be used to help people 
> migrate C extensions to 3.1, by developing a SmPl file with the needed 
> changes dictated by API changes. This is similar to its motivating 
> application to Linux. From
> 
> http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
> 
> "Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation engine which 
> provides the language SmPL (Semantic Patch Language) for specifying 
> desired matches and transformations in C code. Coccinelle was initially 
> targeted towards performing collateral evolutions in Linux. Such 
> evolutions comprise the changes that are needed in client code in 
> response to evolutions in library APIs, and may include modifications 
> such as renaming a function, adding a function argument whose value is 
> somehow context-dependent, and reorganizing a data structure. "
> 
> As I understand it, the problem with C extensions and 3.1 is the current 
> lack of a "collateral evolution" tool like 2to3 for Python code.
Indeed; I think it may be possible to use Coccinelle for this.  

Here's a .cocci semantic patch to convert non-PyObject* dereferences of
an "ob_type" field to use Py_TYPE macro instead. 

@@
PyObject *py_obj_ptr;
type T; 
T non_py_obj_ptr;
@@
(
  py_obj_ptr->ob_type
|
- non_py_obj_ptr->ob_type
+ Py_TYPE(non_py_obj_ptr) 
)

I was able to use this to generate the attached patch for the DBus
python bindings.  Note that it leaves dereferences of a PyObject*
untouched, and works inside sub-expressions.  (There's some noise at the
typedef of Server; I don't know why).

Hope this is helpful
Dave
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