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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:50:50PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Couldn't you just use your favorite matching tool, collect the file names,
> compile them, run pahole, and process the output in some way?  It doesn't
> give a complete analysis (you don't find all problems), but if you find a
> problem it is a real problem.

Well...  You would be better off using Smatch than pahole.  And
obviously I did try something like this, but it's fairly tricky.

regards,
dan carpenter