On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 09:41:25PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the purpose/meaning of these inline + extern in symbol.h?
>
> static inline int is_ptr_type(struct symbol *type)
> {
> if (type->type == SYM_NODE)
> type = type->ctype.base_type;
> return type->type == SYM_PTR || type->type == SYM_ARRAY || type->type == SYM_FN;
> }
It's now a misnomer. It's purpose now is to check if the type
is a pointer or can degenerate to a pointer.
A better name should be used.
> ///later:
>
> extern int is_ptr_type(struct symbol *);
This must be removed (cfr. https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse/commit/46047a0706e5 )
Regards,
-- Luc
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