On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:04 PM John Regehr <
regehr@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> On 3/31/19 7:04 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >
> > It would be interesting to be able to request cyclomatic complexity or
> > other such measures. I say this not because it would be useful for
> > finding C compiler bugs itself - but might be interesting to validate
> > (or counter the usefulness) of such measures in the future.
>
> Cyclomatic complexity and friends seem very 70s. Does anyone use or
> believe in that kind of thing now?
At least I think I'm confused about what Eitan means by "usefulness." Is the implication that some codebase might institute a limit on cyclomatic complexity in the (IMHO mistaken) belief that programs with low cyclomatic complexity are less likely to trigger compiler bugs? I don't think such a belief is either justified or widespread.
–Arthur