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[Frama-c-discuss] problem with pre-processing

On 4/11/11, Julien Signoles <Julien.Signoles at cea.fr> wrote:

> If you are using the value analysis plug-in, its specific limitations
> and hypotheses are explained in Chapter 4 "Limitations and
> Specificities" of the Value Analysis manual. As this chapter says
> nothing special about function pointers, they are fully supported by
> this plug-in.

Although in another chapter, a limitation regarding function pointers
is expressed in the following inscrutable manner :
___

Invalid function pointer access

When the value analysis encounters a statement of the form (*e)(x);
and is unable to guarantee that expression e evaluates to a valid
function address, an alarm is emitted. For historical reasons, the
implementation of this particular alarm category is not very
consistent with the others. This will be fixed in a later version.
___

But to have mysterious limitations about functions pointers, you need
to handle function pointers in the first place, so Julien's reasoning
holds.

Basically, it's impossible to organize this manual in a way such that
people find what they are looking for (as demonstrated weekly by the
questions in this mailing list), so the best solution is for everyone
to learn it by heart. It's only 70 pages. Native English speakers'
grammatical remarks that they might have in the process of doing so
are also welcome.