Unnecessary "throws" declarations tend to cascade. If foo() calls
bar() and bar() falsely declares that it might throw IOException, that
often leads a programmer to declare that foo() might throw IOException
as well. Fixing the bar() throws declaration then reveals that we can
fix the foo() throws declaration too. By the time we reach a fixed
point with cleaning these up, we have removed roughly 320 unnecessary
throws declarations.
In a few cases, this cleanup even lets us remove entire "try
... catch" statements where the only thing being caught was an
exception that we now statically know cannot be thrown. Nice!
In Eclipse project configurations, upgrade any future such shenanigans
from warnings to errors. Now that we've fixed this, we don't want it
coming back again.
There is a potential drawback to this change. Conceivably some public
WALA API entry point might have declared that it could throw some
exception merely to reserve the *option* of throwing that exception in
third-party code that subclasses and overrides the API entry point in
question. I have no idea whether this is a significant concern in
practice, though.
1) Structural changes in the AstTranslator to allow retranslation and generation of custom IR. This is mostly moving state from the translator itself into the context.
2) Some refactoring to share some AST generation code across the Java and JavaScript front ends.
3) Switching to the latest Rhino, release 1.7R3; this is a pervasive change to the JavaScript Rhino translator, since it involves switching to the new AST interface in Rhino.
4) Common code to, as an option, translate Do-style loops by replicating the loop body. This allows the use of CAstNode.LOOP forms for such loops.
5) Some bug fixes to the mechanisms of the CAstRewriter to handle weird control flow cases.
6) An example of retranslation to specialize JavaScript methods based on how many arguments they receive at call sites.
git-svn-id: https://wala.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wala/trunk@4425 f5eafffb-2e1d-0410-98e4-8ec43c5233c4
Ben Liblit
Julian Dolby
Manu Sridharan
msridhar1
dolby-oss