Re: [0/27] RFC: fix reports from the CPython checker

Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-19T14:23:48Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:13:51 -0600
>
> The Python plugin for GCC comes with an analyzer that checks the usage
> of the CPython API:
>
> https://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cpychecker.html
>
> I ran this checker on gdb and fixed a number of bugs that it pointed
> out.
>
> Unfortunately the checker still has a large number of false reports.
> Some of these are due to oddities in gdb -- cleanups mostly -- but some
> are bugs in the checker itself. I've filed bug reports against the
> checker (and fixed some bugs as well); and will file more later.
>
> I built and regtested this series on x86-64 Fedora 18.
>
> I think most of the patches are pretty obvious.
>
> I intend to run the checker periodically and fix problems.

Would it be a good idea to run it automatically by ARI?