> +Strong points of Smatch and Coccinelle > +-------------------------------------- > + > +Coccinelle is probably the easiest for writing checks. It works before the > +pre-compiler so it's easier to check for bugs in macros using Coccinelle. pre-processor > +Coccinelle also writes patches fixes for you which no other tool does. writes patches fixes -> creates patches > + > +With Coccinelle you can do a mass conversion from you can -> you can, for example, julia > +``kmalloc(x * size, GFP_KERNEL)`` to ``kmalloc_array(x, size, GFP_KERNEL)``, and > +that's really useful. If you just created a Smatch warning and try to push the > +work of converting on to the maintainers they would be annoyed. You'd have to > +argue about each warning if can really overflow or not. > + > +Coccinelle does no analysis of variable values, which is the strong point of > +Smatch. On the other hand, Coccinelle allows you to do simple things in a simple > +way. > -- > 2.35.1 > >
