New subject: [Bug 17112] Wine has bugs which can be found using Coverity's static analysis tool

24 Jan 2009


      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.
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[Bug 17112] New: Wine has bugs which can be found using Coverity's static analysis tool