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

[Ben Laurie]

On 12 May 2011 12:51, John Smith <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:47 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).
> >
> This is indeed the argument against static analysis that I hear from
> developers. But if this is universally known to be true, then why
> bother with static analysis in the first place ? Isnt this part of the
> project just a waste of time then ?
>

Static analysis should be used during development not after debugging is
complete. That's where the real value is.


>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> John Smith.
>
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