Re: Goal: reduce overall function complexity

On Wed, 14 May 2025, Dan Fandrich via curl-library wrote:

> According to Wikipedia, McCabe suggested a limit of 10 and NIST later 
> suggested some situations where 15 might be appropriate. So, 100 seems like 
> a good starting point!

Aggressive! We currently have no less than 326 functions scoring over 15. Out 
of 3436, so about 9.5% of all functions.

> If the current few known-bad offenders are added to a whitelist it becomes 
> easier to ratchet this number down over time. In fact, depending on how many 
> high-value functions there currently are, it might be better to start out 
> with a larger whitelist and lower limit.

- Seven are over 100
- 13 are over 90
- 14 are over 80
- 23 are over 70

I think maybe a challenge with a whitelist is that functions sometimes change 
names.

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