Interesting - I didn't know about that QPID, thanks.   

BTW - what tool did you use?

thanks,
-K

----- "Chuck Rolke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I got a run of something like Coverity a few months ago.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-2645. The Qpid code base
> had something like 0.14 complaints per 1000 lines of code (32 issues /
> 224k LoC), 300x better than industry average. And even the complaints
> could be argued.
> 
> In the proposed fixes for issue 2645:
>  1. use-after-free case only prints the address of the object that was
> freed
>  2. use-without-null-test prints the object address
>  3. Using "delete this" in object destructor. If that was going to be
> a problem your test system would have melted down a long time ago.
> 
> If you are interested in getting Coverity results published for the
> project you get my
> 
> +1
> 
> -Chuck
> 
> 
> ----- "Ken Giusti" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Ken Giusti" <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 9:58:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> > Subject: static analysis
> >
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While cruising slashdot (guilty pleasure), I found that Coverity
> > offers their static analysis code tool for qualifying open source
> > projects.  See:
> > 
> > http://scan.coverity.com/
> > 
> > I've used this tool in the past on a previous employer's large C++
> > project.  As with any automated code checker, the signal/noise
> ratio
> > can be rather bad, but it did find a few real issues.
> > 
> > From what I can tell, the project doesn't get access to the tool -
> > rather, Coverity runs the tool over the sources and makes the
> results
> > available to the project. There's a faq for getting a project
> signed
> > up:  http://scan.coverity.com/developers-faq.html   To get started
> > we'd have to designate an official contact.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > 
> > -K
> > 
> >
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