[OpenAFS-devel] clang analyzer buildbot

Garrett Wollman wollman@csail.mit.edu
Thu, 24 May 2018 15:47:56 -0400


<<On Wed, 23 May 2018 16:11:24 -0400, Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net> said:

> During the hallway track at HEPiX 2018, Patrick Riehecky suggested we
> could run the clang static analyzer against the OpenAFS with the easy
> to use scan-build tool.  Patrick runs scan-build from time to time, and
> we though it would be useful to do this nightly on the openafs.org
> buildbot, so I've set up contrib builder on ubuntu 18.04 to run
> scan-build nightly.

I used to run this (a few years back) on a cron job but nobody at the
time seemed interested so I killed it.  Glad there's more interest in
this sort of code analysis now; I know it helped me find a bunch of
bugs (the fixes for which are in the recently released 1.18 branch).

-GAWollman