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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: msnyder@sonic.net
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabspuype.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23843.12.7.175.2.1187384595.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> 	(msnyder@sonic.net)

> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: msnyder@sonic.net
> Cc: msnyder@sonic.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> >> 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...

Yes, and a sentence about what it is.

Or maybe omit the name altogether, and just say that more than 80
issues with resource leaks etc. were resolved.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-18  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-17 19:12 msnyder
2007-08-17 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-17 21:03   ` msnyder
2007-08-18  6:46     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-08-18  1:05 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-18  5:08   ` Michael Snyder
2007-08-18  8:52     ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-18 15:39       ` Michael Snyder
2007-08-20 10:42         ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-20 11:29           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-20 18:37       ` msnyder
2007-08-20 18:42         ` msnyder
2007-08-21  6:47           ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-20 19:11         ` Mark Kettenis

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