On 03/04/2012 07:38 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> Smatch still produces a lot of false positives. Also as bugs get >> fixed in the kernel, the false positive to real bug ratio gets >> worse and worse. But it does find real bugs as well. > > Perhaps a database of known false positives and a mechanism > to use it to see only new instances could be created. Yes, this is actually what xgcc has been doing. See [1] to see how to do it more-or-less reliably. [1] A system and language for building system-specific, static analyses, Hallem, S. and Chelf, B. and Xie, Y. and Engler, D. regards, -- js -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe smatch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
