Re: PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots Bugs In the FreeBSD 2017 edition

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:40:21 -0600
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila_at_iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just a heads up if you haven't yet seen this blog post from Andrey Karpov
> from PVS-Studio.
> It's a quite a long read.
> https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0496/
>
> Here's a few highlights (with some paraphrasing).
>
>>PVS-Studio fixed errors where it's clear how to fix them without digging
> deep into the algorithms.
>>That's why FreeBSD authors should really do a deeper analysis themselves,
>>not just review that limited number of errors that we presented.
>
>>Andrey Karpov is ready to provide a temporary license key and also help to
> eliminate false positives that may hinder their work.
>
> Anyone up for this task?

There's folks that have contacted him. It's not quite as simple as he
said in his post to give access to a run, since they need to filter
things appropriately. It should be published next week, we're told, so
we can make easy use of the results.

Warner
Received on Fri Apr 07 2017 - 20:40:22 UTC

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