Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: Enhance static analysis section with discussion

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>]

> +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.
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