[PATCH] An analysis to find external function pointers and trace their data flow

[Tom Roeder]

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Comment at: lib/Analysis/ExternalFunctionAnalysis.cpp:432
@@ +431,3 @@
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+    // Don't chase values from operator new.
+    std::string Name(F->getName());
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JF Bastien wrote:
> Why not malloc too? Is this just a performance thing, or does it impact correctness?
Memory allocation functions are a frequent source of false positives, so the code tries to skip them. I see what you mean though, about malloc, and in the next revision, I've switched to using TargetLibraryInfo and adding other memory allocation functions from it.


http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2873