From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16898 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2014 19:09:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16879 invoked by uid 89); 25 Apr 2014 19:09:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mailbackend.panix.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (HELO mailbackend.panix.com) (166.84.1.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:09:46 +0000 Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588422E674 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:09:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 17571) id 3439B14B7F; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:09:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:09:00 -0000 From: David Arnstein To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Coverity Scan Message-ID: <20140425190943.GA29615@panix.com> Reply-To: arnstein@pobox.com References: <5359F391.8060309@tiscali.co.uk> <20140425083500.GA5666@calimero.vinschen.de> <20140425155324.GA2412@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140425155324.GA2412@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00585.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple