On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Tom Tromey <ttro...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> That assumes that the 'Foo' of aFoo is stable across function
>>> boundaries, which is not always the case.
>
> Ehsan> No, it doesn't. In the scenario above, all you're looking for is when
> Ehsan> a value was computed, so you can quickly see an aDuck, aQuack,
> Ehsan> aFoopyFoo and determine that the value was passed down from the
> Ehsan> caller, until you get to a call site which passes in something that
> Ehsan> doesn't start with an 'a'.
>
> It was mentioned elsewhere in this thread that some code assigns to
> arguments. In these cases going up to the point of origination may miss
> the spot that actually introduced the value.
>
Admittedly not perfect, but as a first-order approximation:
kats@kgupta-air mozilla-git$ find . -name "*.cpp" | xargs grep "^
*a[A-Z]\w* = " | wc -l
5414
That's not a lot considering the size of the codebase.
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