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Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (23 August 1931 – 9 October 2006), better known by her stage name Coccinelle, was a French actress and entertainer. She was transsexual, and was the first widely publicized sexual reassignment case in Europe, where she was a national celebrity and a renowned club singer.
Coccinelle is the French word for a ladybug (or ladybird). It may refer to:
- a French transsexual actress and entertainer, see Coccinelle
- an Italian leatherware and shoe manufacturer, see Coccinelle (manufacturer)
- Coccinelle (software) - a framework for refactoring of C source code
- the French nickname for the Volkswagen Beetle
- the word (קוקסינל, pronounced koksinel) historically used in Israel for a (male to female) transsexual woman. The word's usage was coined after an Israeli tour in the 1960s, of Coccinelle a French transsexual actress and entertainer. Now rarely used except as a derogatory term to refer to a transsexual woman who is working as a sex worker.
Coccinelle ( French for ladybug) is an open-source utility for matching and transforming the source code of programs written in the C programming language. Coccinelle was initially used to aid the evolution of the Linux kernel, providing support for changes to library application programming interfaces (APIs) such as renaming a function, adding a function argument whose value is somehow context-dependent, and reorganizing a data structure. The source code to be matched or replaced is specified using a pattern very similar to C, called Semantic Patch Language.
Support for Coccinelle is provided by IRILL. Funding for the development has been provided by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences, and INRIA.
The source code of Coccinelle is licensed under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL).