Re: Clang 3.3 Analyzer Results

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, "noloader(at)gmail(dot)com" <noloader(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Clang 3.3 Analyzer Results
Date: 2013-11-12 14:54:46
Message-ID: 20131112145445.GF17272@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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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