So,
after successful, and helpful Saturday with llvm's clang static
checker, I decided to run it against postgresql's source code.
Result can be seen at: http://zlew.org/postgresql_static_check/scan-build-2009-08-23-5/ .
One directory below is the tar file, with the report.
I am sure there's plenty of false positives, but I am also quite sure
there's many real errors on that list. As I have rather bad
experiences with any patches sent here - I hope that's least I can
help with.
To run clang-check I had to change one of the makefiles slightly, as
the postgresql's build system seems to ignore $CC variable
completely , always sticking to the one chosen by the configure script.
The changed file is ./src/Makefile.global. Around line 210 I included
ifdef CC, like that:
ifndef CC
CC = gcc -no-cpp-precomp
GCC = yes
endif
Which later allowed me to run "scan-build make" without issues.
hope that's helpfull.
thanks.
