Static Analysis: results of FUDcon Lawrence hackfest

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:18:43PM +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Friday, January 25, 2013 09:07:22 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:11:11PM -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> > > Note that we also have why and why3 in Fedora, by the way.
> > 
> > .. and ocaml-cil.
> 
> CIL can be used as a front-end for a static analysis tool or a C preprocessor 
> for static analysis tools that have limited C language parsing capabilities, 
> but how are you going to use CIL as a static analysis tool on its own?

Well I did try.  Not, it has to be said, very successfully:

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/cil-analysis-of-libvirt/

This brings me back to an earlier post I made which I still think has
an important point to make:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/175324.html

Rich.

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