http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17112
Summary: Wine has bugs which can be found using Coverity's static analysis tool Product: Wine Version: 1.1.13 Platform: Other URL: http://scan.coverity.com OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
At the moment, Coverity reports 108 uninspected warnings and 86 confirmed bugs on the Wine source tree.
Nobody knows how important they are; most probably don't matter much, but a few could be serious. We should probably at least triage all the uninspected warnings, and it would be really good to fix all the confirmed bugs.
Because it's kind of hard to get access to the Coverity reporting tool (you have to get an account, which you do by asking our Coverity liason; see http://wiki.winehq.org/StaticAnalysis ), we should probably try to make those warnings more easily available somehow, e.g. by filing bugs in bugzilla for a handful of the warnings and see if that helps induce people to fix them.
If we want to get really serious, we could write a script that did a daily coverity run and produced a nice web report of the day's new warnings a la patchwatcher.
Coverity has a carrot to induce us to resolve all the warnings: if we do that, they will start using their latest tools for Wine, which would presumably find more interesting errors.