Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
13 Jun 2002 19:56:15 +0200

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
>
> I mean that due to the loop (link_path_walk->do_follow_link->foofs_follow_link
> ->vfs_follow_link->link_path_walk) you will get infinite maximal depth
> for everything that can be called by any of these functions. And that's
> a _lot_ of stuff.

Surely an analysis pass can detect recursive function chains and flag them
(e.g. the global IPA alias analysis pass in open64 does this)

-Andi
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