What does Coverity/clang static analysis actually do?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 1 15:14:50 PDT 2009


Lutger wrote:
> How hard is this to implement? I ask this because I would suggest to try it 
> out and see how much it catches vs. how annoying it is. In VB.NET I have 
> quite some false positives, but in C# less. It's all about how it fits with 
> the rest of the language. VB.NET doesn't have a ternary operator for 
> example. In D you have less need for pointers and generally a much more 
> expressive vocabulary at your disposal than other C family languages. 

I did implement it long ago, then disabled it because of too many false 
positives. It was more annoying than useful.



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