[cfe-dev] Summer of Code idea -- detecting undefined behavior (fwd)

[Daniel Dunbar]

I second this as a great project idea.

 - Daniel

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:47 PM, John Regehr <regehr at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Oops-- just sent the message below to the main LLVM list, it probably
> would have been better sent to this list in the first place.
>
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>
> Is anyone interested in a SoC project to further develop Clang's support for
> detecting undefined behaviors in C/C++?
>
> This is actually a collection of many smaller projects ranging from very easy
> (detecting divide by zero) to rather nasty (detecting references to
> out-of-scope automatic variables).
>
> If someone does this, I'm happy to help mentor, provide test cases, etc.
>
> If done well, this would be a relatively high-impact project.  It would catch
> more errors than valgrind, be faster, and provide much better error messages.
>
> John Regehr
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