Coverity tool

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 10 11:33:16 PST 2010


retard wrote:
> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:31 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> D has moved a lot towards supplying by default a lot of what Coverity
>> claims to do. By making such an expensive tool irrelevant for D, we can
>> make D much more cost effective.
> 
> D doesn't provide non-nullable types

Yes, there have been a couple long threads about that. Dereferencing a 
null pointer is a bug, but not a security/safety issue.

> and local refs can still escape the scope easily.

Yes, that is a problem, and we've been trying to fix that.



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