Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: assign signed result to unsigned variable

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> * Will a command-line parameter like "--include-headers-for-types"
> >>   be needed here?
> >
> > This argument is never needed.  It is only an optimization.  It means that
> > he header files are only considered when collecting type information, but
> > not whn doing transformation.  But this argument has no effect on the set
> > of types tha are available.
>
> I would consider the reuse of the parameter "--recursive-includes" then
> so that the most function signatures will be available.
> This has got some consequences on the execution speed and configuration
> for the source code analysis.
>
> Are there any risks to include too many functions?

Maybe if there are conflicting definitions of the function with different
return types.  This is probably not a big deal in practice.

julia


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