Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:25:58 -0500

On 12/05/2016 05:31 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Does anyone have recent experience with static code analysis tools?
> There are examples and links under the "show details" area for this
> section of the Best Practices page. I could use some help here.

I made some use of cppcheck with a project this past spring.  It's easy
to run, packaged by debian (thus available on travis-ci.org), and FOSS.
The downsides are those common to static analysis.  It's chatty.

That said.  I just ran it on src/libCom/ and quickly parsed through the
output.  cppcheck finds an potential memory leak in macEnv.c.

> [src/libCom/macLib/macEnv.c:66]: (error) Common realloc mistake: 'dest' nulled but not freed upon failure

> dest = realloc(dest, n);

Sorting through this for all of Base will take some time.

http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System