NEWS: mention Coverity bug fixes

Michael Snyder msnyder@sonic.net
Tue Aug 28 18:45:00 GMT 2007





> On 28 August 2007 12:58, Nick Clifton wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> >    Right, I agree with Ian that the original wording was a little too
much
> > advertising.  So I have gone with a similar to Michael's suggestion,
namely:
> >
> >    Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns,
null
> >    pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been
freed,
> >    as revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc.
> >    (http://scan.coverity.com).
>
>   Won't hear any complaints from me, that seems utterly reasonable :)

Me too -- thanks Nick!




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