[cfe-dev] GSOC Static Analyzer Proposal

[Richard Smith]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Adam Schnitzer <adamschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> John and Sean,
>
> Thank you very much for the feedback. I have a better idea of scope and
> where to focus.
>
> John, I think you're absolutely right, with -fsanitize=undefined and
> others, more behavior is being caught at runtime/compile time. I will start
> working on a list of behaviors for which no diagnostics currently exist,
> and select a subset to focus on.
>

I made such a list when I started UBSan, and have (mostly) kept it
up-to-date with what we currently catch:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o7Xw6dohIuHLOve3hxtTjCrrUbd2NHUgmq_WGrao6js/edit#heading=h.pgx8h2ru49tm

This only covers core language undefined behavior; the standard library is
another country ;)

Adam
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, John Regehr <regehr at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> I would like to work on improving support for C++ in the static analyzer.
>>> Specifically, I think it
>>> would be valuable to improve the checkers for undefined behavior
>>> including those already suggested.
>>>
>>
>> I'd be happy to provide feedback on a more specific version of this part
>> of the proposal.
>>
>> In particular, a useful starting point (maybe this already exists?) would
>> be a list of all C/C++ undefined behaviors broken down by whether
>> Clang/LLVM...
>>
>> - can reliably provide a compile-time diagnostic
>>
>> - can reliably provide a runtime diagnostic
>>
>> - cannot provide any diagnostic, but implements a predictable behavior
>>
>> - cannot provide any diagnostic and also implements unpredictable behavior
>>
>> Obviously the last category is the interesting place for future work.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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