RE: Today's thought

["Chris Eagle" <cseagle () redshift com>]

Halvar et al wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> > There are a lot of companies getting funding right now that do source
> > code analysis, varying from fancy regexp matching on gcc's preprocessor
> > output to real AST generation and inspection. No interfunction value
> > tracking (similar to code coverage in that people underestimate its'
> > usefulness in these scenarios) yet, as far as I know, though.
>
> IIRC Coverity has interfunction value tracking -- if you hook at the AST
> layer in GCC, it should not be _that_ hard
> to pull off, and I am quite surprised that @stake's product doesn't seem
> to do it (as far as I can infer from the examples they showed). Ahwell,
> there's going to be v2 soon I assume.

Dave failed to mention that he was quoted in this article:

http://news.com.com/Will+code+check+tools+yield+worm-proof+software%3F/2100-
1002_3-5220488.html?tag=nefd.lede

Coverity and @stake cited as well.

Chris

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