Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Using the pmccabe2html module I created a report for gnulib itself: >> >> http://josefsson.org/gnulib-cyclo.html >> >> Gnulib appears to trigger some bugs in the script on how the functions >> are sorted, but the output may be interesting nonetheless. > > The legend talks about "untestable functions", and indeed the coloring > of the functions is related to the amount of testing that is needed to > get a reasonable coverage of their operations. We see near the top > > function module > > VASNPRINTF vasnprintf > mem_cd_iconveh_internal striconveh > re_search_internal regex > context::diag diffseq > strtod strtod > > and indeed these modules require a large testsuite. regex doesn't have a > testsuite in gnulib, because we profit from glibc's testing. diffseq should > better have a test as well, because GNU diff has no unit tests at all. > > However, the tool exaggerates the amount of testing needed for functions > that have different implementations on different platforms, like > > function module implementations > > create_pipe pipe 3 > qcopy_acl acl 7 > execute execute 3 > qset_acl acl 7 > getloadavg getloadavg 15
Right, the tool is simple and has its shortcomings. Possibly the explanations should be improved. A link to wikipedia may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity Any objections to installing the module in gnulib? /Simon
