Re: Smatch v1.56 released

Dan Carpenter
2012-03-05T07:20:41Z

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 694 bytes --]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 10:38:50AM -0800, 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.

What I do is only look at new bugs. I've got a script
smatch_scripts/new_bugs.sh
That takes the output from two smatch runs and prints the bugs which
are new.

Artem has a set of scripts he's working on as well.

regards,
dan carpenter

[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 836 bytes --]