Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Question about catcalls

[Daniel T. <dan...@gm...>]

Daniel Tuser wrote:
> Eric Bezault wrote:
>> Daniel Tuser wrote:
>>> In my opinion the code in catcall_problem.e contains no catcall. The 
>>> following lines show the output of gec. I understand the problem of 
>>> gec, but it will never happen. Is that a catcall according to the 
>>> ECMA specification?
>>
>> The ECMA specification does not say much about CAT-calls.
>> In gec, there can be false alarms like these, but the
>> advantage is that when there is no error reported we know
>> for sure that there will be no CAT-calls at runtime. It
>> is usually possible to rewrite the code to avoid such
>> CAT-calls messages. At least it was possible to do so
>> for the code currently in the Gobo package.
>>
> My goal was to write test cases for DS_BILINEAR_TABLE and 
> DS_BILINEAR_SET. All the binary search tree variants could have used 
> them and maybe DS_HASH_[TABLE|SET] as well. But I had to stop because 
> of those CAT-calls. Should I write separate test cases for all the 
> variants or do you think it would be manageable to improve the 
> CAT-call detection?
>
I had a look at the classes that are involved in detecting the 
CAT-calls. From my point of view it is not worth the effort (at least 
for me), so I will write separate test cases.