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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: engler@csl.Stanford.EDU, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 13 Jun 2002 19:56:15 +0200
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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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