On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Tommi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2014-06-01, at 13:48, Gábor Lehel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It would be possible in theory to teach the compiler about e.g. the
> comparison operators on built-in integral types, which don't involve any
> user code. It would only be appropriate as a warning rather than an error
> due to the inherent incompleteness of the analysis and the arbitrariness of
> what things to include in it. No opinion about whether it would be worth
> doing.
>
>
> Perhaps this kind of thing would be better suited for a separate tool that
> could (contrary to a compiler) run this and other kinds of heuristics
> without having to worry about blowing up  compilation times.
>
>
This is typically the domain of either static analysis or runtime
instrumentation (branch coverage tools) in the arbitrary case, indeed.

-- Matthieu


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