What does @Input(notDataflow = true) do?

[Gilles Duboscq]

Hi Kris,

This flag only affects the field name as you found out. This suffix is then
used in the IdealGraphVisualizer to change the color of these edges (from
blue for data flow to black for "other").

-Gilles
On 1 Apr 2014 02:29, "Krystal Mok" <rednaxelafx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to know what @Input(notDataflow = true) does in Graal, and how it
> differs from the default notDataflow = false case.
>
> I searched the code and only saw FieldScanner reading that attribute, but
> it's not really doing much special, other than appending "#NDF" suffix to
> the field name.
>
> Does this attribute affect data dependence analysis in any way?
>
> Thanks,
> Kris
>