On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 18:38 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> This patch remove a semicolon after if(...) that is preventing the
> error check to work correctly. Removing this semicolon will change the
> code behavior, but this is intended.
> 
> The semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r1@
> position p;
> @@
> if (...);@p

this semantic patch would be a lot less tedious to
inspect the results if it excluded else after the
semicolon.

I've used perl for more or less the same output.