Re: [PATCH] cocci: detect useless free(3) calls

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Am 11.02.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Lars Schneider:
> how do you run these checks on the entire Git source?
> Do you run each semantic patch file on the source like this?
> 
> spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/qsort.cocci --dir /path/to/git/git
> ...
> spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci --dir /path/to/git/git

With "make coccicheck", which runs spatch against the items in the make
variable C_SOURCES, for all .cocci files.

> How stable do you consider these checks? Would it make sense to run them
> as part of the Travis-CI build [1]? 

There seem to have been problems with older versions[2], but I'm not
aware of other issues.

Having these checks run automatically would be nice because they
require a special tool which I guess not everybody is willing (or able)
to install and because they take multiple minutes.

René


[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/014ef44e-9dd8-40b3-a3ec-b483f938ee02@xxxxxx/



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