From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19777 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2007 05:08:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 19761 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Aug 2007 05:08:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (HELO a.mail.sonic.net) (64.142.16.245) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:08:54 +0000 Received: from snyder (209-204-172-156.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [209.204.172.156]) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with SMTP id l7I58eqP001276; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:08:40 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c7e155$9bcfb8e0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> Reply-To: "Michael Snyder" From: "Michael Snyder" To: "Nick Roberts" Cc: References: <10983.12.7.175.2.1187377963.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> <18118.17885.89039.298330@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:08:00 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00367.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Roberts" To: Cc: Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:05 PM Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes > > *** Changes since GDB 6.6 > > > > + * 58 Coverity issues resolved in gdb, 29 in bfd, 1 in libiberty, and > > + 1 in opcodes. These include such things as resource leaks, null pointer > > + dereference, use after free, and array overruns. > > + > > * When looking up multiply-defined global symbols, GDB will now prefer the > > symbol definition in the current shared library if it was built using the > > -Bsymbolic linker option. > > I can imagine that Coverity would like recognition when their software is > successfully used to find bugs in free software projects, but I don't think > that NEWS is the right place to do it. This file details what changes have > been made to GDB, not how they were made or how many were made. You already > mention Coverity in the ChangeLogs, which seems the right thing to do. _They_ > can then use this as evidence to any claims that they might wish to make about > their software. Actually I stopped mentioning them in the changelogs, when one of the Binutils maintainers said that they thought it was inappropriate.