Coverity tool

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Feb 10 12:29:06 PST 2010


"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hkv1mg$s6e$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>

Right, it's just not worthwhile for a language to provide help avoiding 
bugs. 





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