cactuscon-2019

Slides

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Running the examples

• Install comby
• The match with-highlights utility is work in progress and not available yet :) You can run all the examples and get plain text output with the commands below
• In general, run the commands at the root directory of the directory or repository that you want to search
• Tack on -stats to get a summary of matches and number of files searched
• See more command line options with -h and usage at comby.dev

Example libssh2

• git clone libssh2-f1cfa55, which is libssh2 pinned to the commit that contains matches for the example pattern
• cd libssh2-f1cfa55
• Then run:

comby 'alloc_workqueue(:[args]);' '' .c -match-only -stats

Example Linux Kernel

• git clone the linux kernel, or any repository you want to search over
• cd into the root directory, then run these commands

Part 1

comby 'alloc_workqueue(:[args]); :[[word]]' '' -rule 'where :[[word]] != "if"' .c -match-only

Part 2

comby 'alloc_workqueue(:[args]); :[[word]]' '' -rule 'where :[[word]] != "if", :[[word]] != "BUG_ON"' .c -match-only

Example Kubernetes

• git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
• cd kubernetes

comby ':[[v]], err := strconv.ParseInt(:[1], :[2], 64) :[rest]' '' -rule 'where match :[rest] { | "int32(:[arg])" -> :[arg] == :[[v]] }' .c -match-only