Re: [PATCH 4/7] arch/nios: replace "__auto_type" with "auto"

On 2025-07-18 14:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Side note: I think some coccinelle (or sed) script that replaces that older form of

   typeof(x) Y = (typeof(x))(Z);

or

    typeof(Z) Y = Z;

with just

    auto Y = Z;

is also worthwhile at some point.

We have more of those, because that's the really traditional gcc way to do things that predates __auto_type.

Agreed. And I think that this, indeed is a job more for Coccinelle than for sed, because the patterns can be rather complex and we don't want false positives.

-hpa