In general, my approach was to try to eliminate each unused parameter
using Eclipse's "Change Method Signature" refactoring. That did not
always succeed: a parameter may be unused in some base class method,
but then be used in subclass's override of that method. In cases
where refactoring to eliminate a parameter failed, I instead annotated
the parameter with '@SuppressWarnings("unused")' to silence the
warning.
Note: this group of changes creates a significant risk of
incompatibility for third-party WALA code. Some removed parameters
change externally-visible APIs. Furthermore, these changes do not
necessarily lead to Java compilation errors. For example, suppose
third-party code subclasses a WALA class or interface, overrides a
method, but does not annotate that method as @Override. Removing a
parameter means that the third-party method no longer overrides. This
can quietly change code behavior without compile-time errors or
warnings. This is exactly why one should use @Override wherever
possible, but we cannot guarantee that third-party WALA users have
done that.
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
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