Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 1/5] coccinelle: add a script to optimize tcg op using tcg_gen_extract()

[SF Markus Elfring]

> Even for 6 functions, I would suggest to write out the function names in
> the pattern matching code rather than using regular expressions.  If the
> names are explicit, then Coccinelle can do some filtering, either based on
> an index made with idutils or glimpse (see the coccinelle scripts
> directory for tools for making these indices) or based on grep, to drop
> without parsing files that are not relevant.  It doesn't do this for
> regular expressions.  So you will get a faster result if the names are
> explicit in the pattern code.

Is such filtering performed for source file names?

I would find it more convenient to specify function prefixes as
regular expressions in constraints for the shown SmPL metavariables.

Regards,
Markus