Re: Lessons from commit fest

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lessons from commit fest
Date: 2008-04-18 03:29:55
Message-ID: 480815B3.4010102@dunslane.net
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> But if we're still doing object file analysis on the build farm and it's easy
> to add typedefs manually then perhaps there's not much effort saved by having
> such a tool. I think it would be possible to write but it wouldn't really be
> easy. You have to parse just enough C to find the typedef but not so much you
> get confused by invalid C syntax caused by looking at both sides of #ifdef
> branches.
>
>

I am pretty dead sure that a textual analysis tool is going to be far
too much work to write and maintain, for the benefit we might get from it.

cheers

andrew

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