From: David Arnstein <arnstein@pobox.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Coverity Scan
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140425190943.GA29615@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425155324.GA2412@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:53:24AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We use coverity at work. It is annoying and it does have false positive
> but a lot of what look like false positives often turn out to be: "Oh,
> wait. (#*(&$ Yeah. That's a problem."
I use Coverity as well, and I find it to be excellent. The latest version
finds copy and paste errors. In particular, it recently issued two
complaints about such errors. In both cases, Coverity was correct, a
developer really had done copy-and-paste twice, introducing an error
each time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-25 5:33 David Stacey
2014-04-25 8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 12:20 ` David Stacey
2014-04-25 13:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-04-25 19:09 ` David Arnstein [this message]
2014-05-16 20:03 ` David Stacey
2014-05-16 20:35 ` Jeffrey Altman
2014-05-17 16:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-17 10:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-17 23:13 ` David Stacey
2014-05-19 8:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
[not found] <CAO1jNwuZhQoyccTTGJWcdUJHHQjHeYc5GZEyG-Hci5kfLaMcTA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-25 9:10 ` Fwd: " Jan Nijtmans
2014-04-25 12:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:55 ` Christopher Faylor
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