Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:08:58 +0100 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: Smatch v1.56 released |
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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
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