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Re: Using Clang's static analyzer on bash


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Using Clang's static analyzer on bash
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:13:37 -0400
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On 4/23/17 9:02 PM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> I built bash using scan-build
> (https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html) and I noticed that
> it was able to detect the null pointer dereference reported earlier by
> Jaren (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-04/msg00100.html).
> 
> dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ scan-build-3.9 make
> scan-build: Using '/usr/lib/llvm-3.9/bin/clang' for static analysis

I'd be interested in seeing the results.  In my experience with similar
tools, the false positive ratio is very high.

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