Re: The concept of semantic patching

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:20:08 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
Hi Ludovic,

> adasubst and adadep from Adalog and Jean-Pierre Rosen.
>
> http://www.adalog.fr/compo1.htm#adadep
>
AdaDep don't play in the same area. AdaSubst is more close, but don't do  
the same. Some part of what Coccinelle do, as far I understand it, could  
be done with AdaControl, some other part with AdaSubst. But look at how  
the patch works, as exposed in
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/Intro_gen.pdf
Seems to be able to insert instructions at relevant place too (that's why  
I feel this is more than classical refactoring, although this is still  
kind of refactoring). Unless I am wrong about AdaSubst can do, I believe  
it does not come this ability.


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