[cfe-dev] proper name for the "Clang Static Analyzer"

Matthew Jimenez tastic at bycrom.org
Fri Oct 24 23:33:03 PDT 2008


On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Ted Kremenek wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Several people have been telling me lately that the "Clang Static
> Analyzer" (http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysis.html) needs a proper
> name.  I think this would be useful to distinguish the static analyzer
> from Clang itself.  To some people the name "Clang" represents the
> static analyzer, and I don't want that to interfere with the
> visibility of the Clang project itself.  I admit that I'm not very
> good at all in coming up with such names; any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Ted
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