Re: Lessons from commit fest - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Lessons from commit fest
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Msg-id 480815B3.4010102@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Lessons from commit fest  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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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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