On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 08:09, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>wrote:
> > On 5 May, 2010, at 22:56, Brett Cannon wrote: > > I am done running the analysis over trunk. I will not svnmerge these > changes into py3k as the amount of time and effort that would take equates > to running the static analyzer again just before 3.2 is released and > possibly catching more changes (and maybe even a newer version of Clang at > that point). > > > Have you looked into teaching clang's static analyser about Python's > refcounting rules? Clang's analyser can tell you about problems related to > reference count management for Objective-C code and doing the same for code > using the CPython API would be usefull. > That's a thought, but I have not looked into it yet. As of right now the first thing I would do is fix its NULL de-reference analysis as it had a bunch of false-positives on that (I don't think it handles `!ptr` as equivalent to `ptr == NULL`). -Brett > > Ronald > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 15:37, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> Since 2.7 is probably going to exist for a while, I am running Clang 2.7's >> static analyzer (``clang --static``) over trunk. It's mostly just finding >> stuff like unneeded variable initialization or variables that are never used >> (compilation is picking up unused returned values, almost all from >> PyObject_INIT). >> >> When I check in these changes I will do it file by file, but my question >> is how to handle Misc/NEWS. I have gone through the underscores and the 'a's >> in Modules and already have six modified files, so the final count might be >> a little high. Do people want individual entries per file, or simply a >> single entry that lists each file modified? >> >> We should probably go through the C code and fix the whitespace before we >> hit 2.7 final (there is a ton of lines with extraneous spaces). >> >> -Brett >> > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com > > >
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