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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:21:28 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: We have a lot of duplicated code in the kernel 
Message-ID:  <46996.1107012088@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:10:22 %2B0100." <20050129161022.0de822fe@Magellan.Leidinger.net> 

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In message <20050129161022.0de822fe@Magellan.Leidinger.net>, Alexander Leidinger writes:
>Hi,
>
>http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/simian-20-sys-20050129.log (253k)
>contains a log of duplicated code in /sys (-current as of today). The
>file starts with files with 20 consecutive lines of duplicated code and
>ends with two files which share 1108 lines of code.
>
>If I let the program detect 6 consecutive lines of duplicated code, it
>is also able to detect possible code reuse in the same file, but it also
>prints a lot of "noise" then.
>
>I've filtered the list for some false positives (twa_fwimg, trlld?m,
>if_patm_rtables), if someone else notices some more files please tell me
>about them and I add them to the filter.

And we'll soon see the tool which generates this in src/tools/tools
somewhere I hope ? :-)

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