linux-kernel - Re: [Cocci] Re: status of constification

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Message-ID: <4CDE80E8.6060601@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:13:28 +0100
From:	Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
CC:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...u.dk, Lionel Debroux <lionel_debroux@...oo.fr>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Re: status of constification

>>> What would the right approach be?  It is not obvious to find 100% of the 
>>> header files, because some of them depend on information in Makefiles.  
>>
>> For 100% coverage you can look at how the Linux Makefiles invoke sparse.
> 
> I haven't looked at it, but I doubt it gives 100% coverage, because one 
> can have code in both the if and else branches of an ifdef.  I would 
> imagine that it gives 100% coverage for whatever architecture you would be 
> compiling for?

For my purposes it's enough to find all includes for a given .config.

What would be also useful is if Coccinelle could somehow ignore ifdef's that
guard code blocks so that it would analyse all code in a translation unit. 

Thanks Emese

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