Hi Alexander.
> Feel free to join... Another source of fun: take a random
> file from inlude/*/, pick a random prototype defined there,
> grep the tree for said beast. Estimate the probability of
> finding the function in question
> a) called by somebody
> b) defined somewhere
> c) (a) && !(b)
> Admittedly, P(c) is pretty low, but non-zero. P(!b) is
> _far_ from zero.
Also watch out for constructs like the following...
sample.h
#define FOO BAZ
void FOO (void);
sample.c
void BAZ (void) {
:
}
Yes, I have come across programs doing tricks like that. I'm not
aware of any occurrances of it in the kernel source, but it
wouldn't surprise me...
Best wishes from Riley.
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