New APIs are continually added to the Linux kernel, to improve functionality, reliability, or performance. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to update old code to use these new APIs. Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation tool for C code that has been extensively been applied to the Linux kernel. This talk will introduce Coccinelle and illustrate how it can be used for this kind of code renovation.
Categories:
debugging
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66
speaker:
Julia LAWALL
year:
2013