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Open Source Security Report

Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:34 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Open Source Security Report by lunz
Parent article: Open Source Security Report

Valgrind isn't a source code checker, and its mechanism of action (JITted 
dynamic binary instrumentation) is utterly different from Coverity's. Also 
they don't spot especially similar classes of problem.

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