[erlang-questions] match specifications - find all matches

[damien morton]

I'm trying to use compiled match specifications for an algorithm whereby I
want to find from a set of functions all possible functions that might match
a given message.
The idea is to extract the arguments pattern and guards from each function
and compile them all into one large match specification, with a
single MatchFunction corresponding to each function.

What I cant figure out is how to persuade the erlang:ms_test function to
return multiple possible matches - it only returns the first match.

Was thinking that I could use the trace functions somehow to do this, but
they don't seem to be available from the erlang_ms_test function.

If anyone has any pointers as to how to do this, they would be greatly
appreciated. I know I can run a series of match-specs one at a time, but I
expect that compiling them into one large match-spec will be more efficient.
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