Re: Static code checker research worth investigating (Communications of the ACM, 03/2016, Vol. 59, No. 03, p. 99)

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Browder <tom(dot)browder(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Static code checker research worth investigating (Communications of the ACM, 03/2016, Vol. 59, No. 03, p. 99)
Date: 2016-03-05 12:41:40
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Hi,

On Sat, 2016-03-05 at 06:24 -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> Interesting article in latest issue of subject titled:
>
> "A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection"
>
> which may describe procedures not used in other static analysis programs.
>
> Article references the authors' website here:
>
> http://css.csail.mit.edu/stack
>
> which contains more info links and a link to the software on github here:
>
> https://github.com/xiw/stack
>
> Best regards,

AFAIK this is not an entirely new tool - it was published a few years
back (2013?) along with a paper that also mentioned a few issues in
PostgreSQL. And it was dealt with, see for example this thread

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20130715215950(dot)GA4165(at)eldon(dot)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org

Or is this something new?

regards

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