From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31842 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2007 20:50:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 31833 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jun 2007 20:50:49 -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; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:50:41 +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 l5SKodtV025449 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:50:39 -0700 Received: from 12.7.175.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user msnyder) by webmail.sonic.net with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <22076.12.7.175.2.1183063839.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:50:00 -0000 Subject: Coverity static code analysis and gdb From: msnyder@sonic.net To: gdb@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-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/msg00343.txt.bz2 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... Michael Snyder