PSA: If you are C/C++ developer, use cppcheck

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 15:37:53 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Ondrej Vasik wrote:

 > Publishing them is a bit tricky - I can of course publish them (we scan
 > with cppcheck, enhanced gcc warnings, clang and coverity) - but the
 > reports may contain some attack vectors - and for inactive packages, it
 > would only show the doors to attackers.

Then it's a good thing that attackers don't have any money and can't afford
to buy a checker license themselves.

Hiding bugs doesn't make them go away, and pretending we have tools bad people
don't is a fallacy.

	Dave



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