Am 15.09.2016 um 23:39 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > >> Am 15.09.2016 um 22:01 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>> René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Take this for example: >>>> >>>> - strbuf_addf(&o->obuf, _("(bad commit)\n")); >>>> + strbuf_addstr(&o->obuf, _("(bad commit)\n")); >>>> >>>> If there's a language that uses percent signs instead of parens or as >>>> regular letters, then they need to be escaped in the translated string >>>> before, but not after the patch. As I wrote: silly. >>> >>> Ahh, OK, so "This use of addf only has format part and nothing else, >>> hence the format part can be taken as-is" which is the Coccinelle rule >>> used to produce this patch is incomplete and always needs manual >>> inspection, in case the format part wanted to give a literal % in >>> the output. E.g. it is a bug to convert this >>> >>> strbuf_addf(&buf, _("this is 100%% wrong!")); >>> >>> to >>> >>> strbuf_addstr(&buf, _("this is 100%% wrong!")); >> >> Right. Such strings seem to be quite rare in practice, though. >> >>> Thanks for clarification. Perhaps the strbuf.cocci rule file can >>> have some comment to warn the person who builds *.patch file to look >>> for % in E2, or something? >> >> Something like this? > > Yup, with something like that I would understdood where that > puzzling question came from. Here's something better than a comment: -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise We can replace strbuf_addf() calls that just add a simple string with calls to strbuf_addstr() to make the intent clearer. We need to be careful if that string contains printf format specifications like %%, though, as a simple replacement would change the output. Add checks to the semantic patch to make sure we only perform the transformation if the second argument is a string constant (possibly translated) that doesn't contain any percent signs. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci index 1e24298..63995f2 100644 --- a/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci +++ b/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci @@ -1,8 +1,31 @@ +@ strbuf_addf_with_format_only @ +expression E; +constant fmt; @@ -expression E1, E2; + strbuf_addf(E, +( + fmt +| + _(fmt) +) + ); + +@ script:python @ +fmt << strbuf_addf_with_format_only.fmt; @@ -- strbuf_addf(E1, E2); -+ strbuf_addstr(E1, E2); +cocci.include_match("%" not in fmt) + +@ extends strbuf_addf_with_format_only @ +@@ +- strbuf_addf ++ strbuf_addstr + (E, +( + fmt +| + _(fmt) +) + ); @@ expression E1, E2; -- 2.10.0