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Re: [CFG] what are class 3 edges ?
Sunzir Deepur wrote:
>
> ok, that's one example where class 3 edges are created, but why is that ?
> they obviously do not represent a legit flow of code.
> e.g.
> if(condition) {
> BB1
> }
> else {
> BB2
> }
>
> here i get (besides the obvious edges) a class 3 edge between BB1 to BB2.
>
> why ? there is no way there will be flow from BB1 to BB2. so why to create
> those edges in the first place ?
I can't tell with so few details, but it might happen in some specific
cases and under some optimization algorithms that an 'if' will be
changed into a 'switch' (e.g. if your 'condition' is a chain of and/or).
Regards
--
Emmanuel Fleury
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
-- Bertrand Russel (A History of Western Philosophy, 1945)