Use BEV_UPCASE() everywhere Done with coccinelle and manual line rewrap: $ cat > BEV_UPCAST.cocci @@ expression field_; expression var; @@ - EVUTIL_UPCAST(var, struct bufferevent_private, field_) + BEV_UPCAST(var) $ spatch --sp-file BEV_UPCASE.cocci --in-place bufferevent*.c > /dev/null (cherry picked from commit 7bcf576b396b22f218074c446691526a3ce509a6)