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> So it works, but you are complaining anyway?

How serious do you interpret such information in the SmPL manual?


>> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/bf1c6a5869dd324f5faeeaa3a12d57270e478b21/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L50
>>
>> “…
>> Furthermore, @ should not be used in this code.
…
>> …”
> 
> I guess the conclusion is that it woks in strings (which are pretty
> universal) and not in comments (which are language specific).

Would you like to achieve any safer data processing for potentially “reserved” characters?

Regards,
Markus