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From: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
To: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not ignore attribute 'noreturn'...
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:44:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70318cbf0908281444q735b7b9fm73f0fcbdbaeefa7b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908282330.08332.kdudka@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kamil Dudka<kdudka@redhat.com> wrote:
> enclosed is a simple patch adding support for attribute 'noreturn' to the
> parser. The enhancement makes it possible to optimize walk through CFG and
> thus help us to fight with the state explosion. The benefit is demonstrated
> on a simple real-world example.
>
> Generated CFG before patch:
> http://dudka.cz/devel/html/slsparse-before/slplug.c-handle_stmt_assign.svg
>
> Generated CFG after patch:
> http://dudka.cz/devel/html/slsparse-after/slplug.c-handle_stmt_assign.svg
>
> It's one of the key features I am currently missing in SPARSE in contrast
> to gcc used as parser. Thanks in advance for considering it!

Yes, no return is kind of useful. I think we need to do some thing about the
MOD_XXX eventually. It is very easy to run out of bits there.

Thanks for the patch. Applied.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-28 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-28 21:30 [PATCH] do not ignore attribute 'noreturn' Kamil Dudka
2009-08-28 21:44 ` Christopher Li [this message]
2009-09-14 17:27   ` Christopher Li
2009-09-14 17:32     ` Kamil Dudka
2009-09-14 17:55       ` Christopher Li
2009-09-14 19:44         ` Kamil Dudka
2009-09-14 20:47           ` Christopher Li
2009-09-14 21:13             ` Kamil Dudka

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