Re: Clang 3.3 Analyzer Results - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Clang 3.3 Analyzer Results
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Msg-id 20131112145445.GF17272@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Clang 3.3 Analyzer Results  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> I think Coverity does that, or at least I've seen output from some tool
> that does it.

Coverity does provide the path (including going through multiple
interations of a loop, if applicable).  Doesn't make it perfect, sadly,
but I've been trying to feed back false positives to their dev group to
address.  Frustratingly, it doesn't handle global variables terribly
well and I've found a couple of false positives around cases involving
them.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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