[cfe-dev] Clang Analysis of several open source projects.

John Smith lbalbalba at gmail.com
Thu May 12 09:53:43 PDT 2011


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Experience with static analysis says that almost all the issues will be
>> false positives (at least in openssl).
>
> e.g.
> http://lbalbalba.freezoka.net/ccc-analyzer/scan-build-openssl-1.0.0d/report-x3HkoT.html#EndPath
> is bad analysis (the branch stuff needs to understand bitmaps to fix it -
> hmm, that could be a fun project).
>
Thanks for examining that one. Part of the point of posting this, is
that hopefully it will result in a better analyzer in the end by
eliminating as much false positives as possible.

Perhaps a bug report could/should be filed for this one ?...
;)


Regards,


John Smith.



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