Clang static analysis results for dmd

Don nospam at nospam.com
Wed Jul 27 01:22:24 PDT 2011


Robert Clipsham wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I took the liberty of running dmd through clang's static analysis, and 
> it's turned up quite a few (486) potential bugs in dmd:
> 
> http://octarineparrot.com/assets/dmd/
> 
> There's bound to be a few false positives in there (please feel free to 
> report them to the nice folk over at llvm), and the dead code won't 
> cause any problems (and most of the "dead code" in the backend is 
> probably in use with dmc or something), but there are still a few 
> hundred potential crashes in there.
> 
> The link above is rather slow - if anyone wants a local copy to work 
> with let me know and I'll see about getting one to you... The compressed 
> source to those pages is ~206MB, it's about 2.8GB without compression!
> 

Here's a clang bug:
http://octarineparrot.com/assets/dmd/report-vtxpYt.html#EndPath

3436 if (!exp)
	
      <9> Taking false branch
3437	fd->nrvo_can = 0;
3438	
3439	if (exp)
	
      <10> Taking false branch
3440	{


That is, (!exp) is false, and (exp) is also false.


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