@@ -40,12 +40,18 @@ struct object_factory_parameterst
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// / Minimum value for the non-deterministically-chosen length of a string.
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size_t min_nondet_string_length = 0 ;
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- // / Maximum depth for object hierarchy on input.
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- // / Used to prevent object factory to loop infinitely during the
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- // / generation of code that allocates/initializes data structures of recursive
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- // / data types or unbounded depth. We bound the maximum number of times we
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- // / dereference a pointer using a 'depth counter'. We set a pointer to null if
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- // / such depth becomes >= than this maximum value.
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+ // / Maximum depth of pointer chains (that contain recursion) in the nondet
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+ // / generated input objects.
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+ // /
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+ // / Used to prevent the object factory from looping infinitely during the
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+ // / generation of code that allocates/initializes recursive data structures
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+ // / (such as a linked list). The object factory tracks the number of times a
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+ // / pointer has been dereferenced in a 'depth' counter variable. If a pointer
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+ // / to be initialized points to an object of a type that already occured on
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+ // / the current pointer chain, and if 'depth' is larger than
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+ // / 'max_nondet_tree_depth`, then the pointer is set to null. The parameter
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+ // / does not affect non-recursive data structures, which are always
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+ // / initialized to their full depth.
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size_t max_nondet_tree_depth = 5 ;
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// / To force a certain depth of non-null objects.
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