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=== Requirements === | === Requirements === | ||
* GCC 3.4.x or older that can successfully build Mozilla. 64bit Ubuntu, 32bit RHEL/CentOS are known to work. 32bit Ubuntu/Debian feature a linker bug that prevents Mozilla from building with gcc 3.4.6. | * GCC 3.4.x or older that can successfully build Mozilla. 64bit Ubuntu, 32bit RHEL/CentOS are known to work. 32bit Ubuntu/Debian feature a linker bug that prevents Mozilla from building with gcc 3.4.6. Note: Recent work on Pork's Elsa allows it to be used with GCC 4.2 | ||
* MCPP is required for refactoring tools | * MCPP is required for refactoring tools | ||
* [[SpiderMonkey]] is required by [[DeHydra]] | * [[SpiderMonkey]] is required by [[DeHydra]] | ||
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=== Pork Tools === | === Pork Tools === | ||
Pork is broken down into tools that focus on a specific tasks. The tools can rarely be combined and thus should be applied incrementally. | Pork is broken down into tools that focus on a specific tasks. The tools can rarely be combined and thus should be applied incrementally. | ||
* [[Outparamdel]] rewrites code using outparameters to utilize the return value instead. [http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/08/06/outparams-take-2/ Blog entry] | * [[Outparamdel]] rewrites code using outparameters to utilize the return value instead. [http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/08/06/outparams-take-2/ Blog entry] | ||
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* [[PorkBarrel]] is a multiplexer(ala make -j) for the pork tools. It can combine patch output for patch-producing tools and save per-file output for DeHydra. The repository also contains a frontend to do nightly runs of prcheck. | * [[PorkBarrel]] is a multiplexer(ala make -j) for the pork tools. It can combine patch output for patch-producing tools and save per-file output for DeHydra. The repository also contains a frontend to do nightly runs of prcheck. | ||
* [[Dehydra GCC]] a static analysis plugin for GCC. | |||
=== Differences from Mainstream === | === Differences from Mainstream === | ||
In addition to adding more oink tools, pork has some differences from [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/ Elsa and Elkhound]. | In addition to adding more oink tools, pork has some differences from [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/ Elsa and Elkhound]. | ||
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** Expression AST nodes were modified to include end-of-node info + associated bugfixes | ** Expression AST nodes were modified to include end-of-node info + associated bugfixes | ||
** Elsa has been extended to support MCPP's macro-undo(-K) mode. Additional APIs were added to convert post-preprocessing source coordinates into pre-preprocessing ones | ** Elsa has been extended to support MCPP's macro-undo(-K) mode. Additional APIs were added to convert post-preprocessing source coordinates into pre-preprocessing ones | ||
** Elsa has received bugfixes to work with recent GCC (4.2) headers | |||