From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1982 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2007 20:58:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 1974 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jun 2007 20:58:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:57 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858A0982A3; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9869819F; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I413M-0001yr-Fn; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:57:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: msnyder@sonic.net Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Coverity static code analysis and gdb Message-ID: <20070628205724.GA7499@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: msnyder@sonic.net, gdb@sourceware.org References: <22076.12.7.175.2.1183063839.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22076.12.7.175.2.1183063839.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:50:39PM -0700, msnyder@sonic.net wrote: > Hi all, > > I saw a presentation of Coverity's static code analysis tools last > week, and they happened to mention that they have set up a free scan > of open source projects (see http://scan.coverity.com), and that gdb > is included. I asked for and received access. > > Their scan found about 250 possible bugs such as reference thru > potentially-null pointers and allocations without frees. > > I expect to be submitting patches for some. Just a heads-up... Yay! I registered for access too (they announced it on the list quite a while ago), but never managed to fix any of them. It's been creeping back up my task list lately. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery