Static code analysis is hard, tracing possible values of an expression like 3 + 2 * nNumItems is hard, and tracing actual possible values is often near to impossible. This is why it is a warning, not error. So far for the obvious. Now, looking at how you describe that this warning behaves, I would … Read more
Update Nov 2018: It would appear that Structure101 (new download page) no longer has an ActionScript variant. Original answer, links outdated: Download Structure101g and select the Actionscript flavor after installing the software. I’ve confirmed that it is able to map out class level and even function call dependencies in Flex/AS3 projects, and generate a visual … Read more
For newer releases of Matlab (eg 2007 or 2008) you could use the built in functions: mlint dependency report and coverage report Another option is to use Matlab’s profiler. The command is profile, it can also be used to track dependencies. To use profile, you could do >> profile on % turn profiling on >> … Read more
Gendarme will detect private methods with no upstream callers. It is available cross platform, and the latest version handles “AvoidUncalledPrivateCodeRule“. FxCop will detect public/protected methods with no upstream callers. However, FxCop does not detect all methods without upstream callers, as it is meant to check in the case that your code is part of a … Read more
Adding # noqa to a line indicates that the linter (a program that automatically checks code quality) should not check this line. Any warnings that code may have generated will be ignored. That line may have something that “looks bad” to the linter, but the developer understands and intends it to be there for some … Read more
GCC docs : -fstack-usage Makes the compiler output stack usage information for the program, on a per-function basis. The filename for the dump is made by appending .su to the auxname. auxname is generated from the name of the output file, if explicitly specified and it is not an executable, otherwise it is the basename … Read more
The most common way to determine the deepest stack usage is to initialize the stack memory with some known but unusual value, then periodically (or at the end of a big test run) see where that pattern stops. This is exactly how the IAR IDE determines the amount of stack used.
You’re probably looking for the SymbolFinder class and specifically the FindAllReferences method. It sounds like you’re having some trouble getting familiar with Roslyn. I’ve got a series of blog posts to help people get introduced to Roslyn called Learn Roslyn Now. As @SLaks mentions you’re going to need access to the semantic model which I … Read more
To answer the “why” part of the question as to why not List<T>, The reasons are future-proofing and API simplicity. Future-proofing List<T> is not designed to be easily extensible by subclassing it; it is designed to be fast for internal implementations. You’ll notice the methods on it are not virtual and so cannot be overridden, … Read more