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From:Sergei Golubchik Date:July 3 2008 6:28pm
Subject:Re: Coverity Scan and MySQL
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Hi!

On Jul 03, Michael Izioumtchenko wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> what do you think about usefulness of Coverity analysis, from past
> experience?
> [not sure if my question merits a post to the internals list, if you
> think otherwise, please feel free to cc: your answer to the list]

Pretty good.
Very impressive, if compared with other tools.

> Sergei Golubchik wrote:
>> On Jul 03, Chad MILLER wrote:
>>> On 2 Jul 2008, at 19:17, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Why doesn't MySQL participate in the Coverity Scan project? This would
>>>> provide static-analysis for free. PostgreSQL and SQLite participate.
>>>> http://scan.coverity.com/faq.html
>>>>       
>> Just to remind that MySQL sources were analyzed by Coverity few times
>> (first time, if I'm not mistaken, it was 4.0.16, then some 5.x).
>>
>> Which, of course, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it again :)
>>
Regards / Mit vielen Grüssen,
Sergei

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