Coverity tool

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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. 


It's a benefit/cost issue. There are no bug-preventing features that are 
without cost, the idea is to maximize the ratio.