Re: [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a wrapper

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 2020-09-28 15:48, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> There are a few cases:  if I want to find declarations of type int,
>> I'd start with:
>>
>> $ grep -rn "int\s"
>>
>> or something like that.  "int\~" would break the ability to do that.
>
> That would, among more obscure cases, miss the style of function
> declaration used by people who get along without ctags:
>
> static int
> my_little_function(int foo, char bar)
>
> So I would tend to use grep 'int\>' to match a word boundary instead of
> a whitespace character.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>

On 2020-09-28 16:31, David Laight wrote:
> From: Alejandro Colomar
> > Sent: 28 September 2020 14:33
> ...
> > There are a few cases:  if I want to find declarations of type int,
> > I'd start with:
> >
> > $ grep -rn "int\s"
> >
> > or something like that.  "int\~" would break the ability to do that.
>
> The 'word markers' \< and \> are your friends; look for "\<int\>".
>
> 	David
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Thank you both, I didn't know about those.

Regards,

Alex