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Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Roberts" <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: <msnyder@sonic.net>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes
> > *** Changes since GDB 6.6
> >
> > + * 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.
> > +
> > * When looking up multiply-defined global symbols, GDB will now
prefer the
> > symbol definition in the current shared library if it was built using
the
> > -Bsymbolic linker option.
>
> I can imagine that Coverity would like recognition when their software is
> successfully used to find bugs in free software projects, but I don't
think
> that NEWS is the right place to do it. This file details what changes
have
> been made to GDB, not how they were made or how many were made. You
already
> mention Coverity in the ChangeLogs, which seems the right thing to do.
_They_
> can then use this as evidence to any claims that they might wish to make
about
> their software.
Actually I stopped mentioning them in the changelogs, when
one of the Binutils maintainers said that they thought it was
inappropriate.