Static Analysis Tooling / Effective D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-01-21 05:34, Brian Schott wrote:
> I've checked in code to the DScanner project that gives it some basic
> static analysis capabilities. When run with the --styleCheck option, it
> will warn about a few things like empty declarations, implicit string
> concatenation, classes with lowercase_names, catching "Exception", and a
> few other things.
>
> There's a small feature wishlist in the project's README, but I'd like
> to get some opinions from the newsgroup: What kinds of errors have you
> seen in your code that you think a static analysis tool could help with?

Have a look at the Clang static analyzer as well. How accurate source 
information is kept? Xcode can, with the help of Clang, graphically show 
the flow path.

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/Jacob Carlborg