[cfe-dev] scan-build man page

[Anna Zaks]

James, 

I've just noticed that there is some discrepancy in the man page, where a lot of checkers that are turned on by default are marked as [off]. For example, all of unix and osx checkers.

Anna.
On May 10, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Ted Kremenek wrote:

> On May 10, 2012, at 2:35 PM, James K. Lowden <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote:
> 
>> All documentation is of two kinds: User Guide and Reference Manual.
>> 
>> A UG walks you through how do things in some learnable order.  It is
>> read linearly.  It starts with simple concepts and dismissable claims,
>> and works through the process the creator's of the software supposed a
>> user might take.  It's indexed, and the user might have to backtrack.
>> But it's fundamentally an exposition of why and how things are done.
>> To some extent, it may explain the problem domain too.  
>> 
>> The RM is never read linearly except by dweebs and authors (possibly
>> the same set).  It is organized by feature and accessed by its
>> index.  It says what's true in as few words as possible. It's a "what"
>> document.  There's no place for why and how.  The user is assumed to
>> have read the UG, or at least to have the sense to follow the "read the
>> UG" advice when the RM points him that way.  
> 
> Great points.  I suppose what we have on the website is somewhere in between a UG and RM, but not entirely both.
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