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Re: Coverity static code analysis and gdb


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


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