Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:29:45 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> said: > =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> said: > > > So effectively, it comes down to the recursive paths. Unless someone > > > comes up with a semantical parser that can figure out the maximum > > > number of iterations, we have to look at them manually.
> > Linus, Andrew, would you accept patches like the one below? With such > > information and assuming that the comments will get maintained, it's > > relatively simple to unroll recursions and measure stack comsumption > > more accurately. > > Perhaps some other format of comment should be introduced? Will not > this interfere with linuxdoc?
If the comment gets out of sync, you are toast. Too easy for that to happen, IMVHO. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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