[Cocci] filtering functions from code

[Julia Lawall]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, ron minnich wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Arie Middelkoop <amiddelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> \
>> I assume that you want to obtain all the code that is reachable from the
>> "intel_setup_bios" function.
>
> now *that* would be very powerful and it had not occurred to me that
> it would be possible.

I'll send an example later today that does this.

julia

>> You also seem to suggest that you want to apply
>> transformations that will reduce these dependencies? E.g. when you eliminate
>> a function call, it may very well turn out that you don't need the callee
>> anymore. Is that correct?
>
> Yes.
>
> To provide more useful info, there is a very complex driver for the
> Intel 915 graphics family (drivers/gpu/drm/i915). I need to extract
> just the initialization code, nothing more. So, starting with two
> functions, I want to extract the bare minimum of code needed to make
> it work. I plan to do this incrementally, so to start first with with
> intel_setup_bios.
>
> Thanks
>
> ron
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