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Posted May 21, 2008 16:03 UTC (Wed) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
In reply to: Open Source Security Report by lmb
Parent article: Open Source Security Report

Agreed. splint is probably the closest. My Flawfinder tool is another OSS tool for scanning code (though it's VERY naive); the flawfinder home page has links to LOTS of related work.


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Posted May 23, 2008 6:11 UTC (Fri) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]

The Sparse folks are starting to make that codebase do some fairly general checks as well.
They have a long-term goal of doing some abstract interpretation based analyses.

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