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Need pointer-tracking function #2

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Gnurou opened this issue Mar 12, 2012 · 0 comments
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Need pointer-tracking function #2

Gnurou opened this issue Mar 12, 2012 · 0 comments

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Gnurou commented Mar 12, 2012

The kernel heavily relies on pointers to implement the equivalent of virtual functions, either by assigning a pointer directly in an initialization function or designated initializer, or for instance by setting a constant file_ops. All these assignments are against statically known functions or instances.

When such a static assignment to a pointer is performed, it would be great to be able to track the possible values the pointer takes and to display them to the user when such a pointer is highlighted. Since we are aware of the code that is actually needed by the kernel and only include necessary files, this should resolve to a reasonnable number of possibilities and be quite helpful to browse through code.

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