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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:40:21 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots Bugs In the FreeBSD 2017 edition
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfoP_rnszF-3p%2Bjgk2NohwCCViqTAJo0vcwYqoio5Qg1Bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABHD1wRn2uwwh5aBS26pWg%2B71FAQ1P4yVB3Bp_8%2ByRGEg%2BVU6w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just a heads up if you haven't yet seen this blog post from Andrey Karpov
> from PVS-Studio.
> It's a quite a long read.
> https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0496/
>
> Here's a few highlights (with some paraphrasing).
>
>>PVS-Studio fixed errors where it's clear how to fix them without digging
> deep into the algorithms.
>>That's why FreeBSD authors should really do a deeper analysis themselves,
>>not just review that limited number of errors that we presented.
>
>>Andrey Karpov is ready to provide a temporary license key and also help to
> eliminate false positives that may hinder their work.
>
> Anyone up for this task?

There's folks that have contacted him. It's not quite as simple as he
said in his post to give access to a run, since they need to filter
things appropriately. It should be published next week, we're told, so
we can make easy use of the results.

Warner


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