Re: [RFC PATCH] explicitly mark recursion count

[Horst von Brand]

Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> said:
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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