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Fri, 2008-03-07 22:56 — john

I'm working my way through call resolution for Prolint, and found something that looks like dead code.

It looks like procedure ProcessFieldRUsage in nameconv.p is just a copy/paste from varusage.p. I think it's unused and should be removed. It has a call to AddDetectedUsage, which is only defined in varusage.p (which doesn't appear to be a super of anything)... so that call would fail if it was ever executed.


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Fri, 2008-03-07 23:54 — jurjen
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ok but what is "call resolution"?

I bet you're right that ProcessFieldRUsage is never called and I have deleted it.

But more interesting: what IS call resolution?


Sat, 2008-03-08 00:35 — john
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re: what IS call resolution

I'm loading Prolint into Analyst, and I'll make it available online for those interested in the Prolint code, and also as a demo of Analyst.

Analyst resolves most calls by doing string propagation, but where it gets more tricky (like program names from tables or configuration files), then Analyst needs a little help from end user scripts. That's what I did for Prolint - made sure that all of the important calls are resolved.