From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3557 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2007 21:03:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 3265 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2007 21:03:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (HELO b.mail.sonic.net) (64.142.19.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:03:22 +0000 Received: from webmail.sonic.net (b.webmail.sonic.net [64.142.100.148]) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l7HL3F80013268; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:03:15 -0700 Received: from 12.7.175.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user msnyder) by webmail.sonic.net with HTTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <23843.12.7.175.2.1187384595.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> In-Reply-To: References: <10983.12.7.175.2.1187377963.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:03:00 -0000 Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes From: msnyder@sonic.net To: "Eli Zaretskii" Cc: msnyder@sonic.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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/msg00340.txt.bz2 >> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:12:43 -0700 (PDT) >> From: msnyder@sonic.net >> >> Can we include this in 6.7 please? > > Yes, but... > >> + * 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. > > Are we sure the reader will know what is Coverity, and what does the > above mean to her/him? I'm open to suggestions. We could include their URL, for instance...