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Coccinelle

Coccinelle

Posted Jul 30, 2009 8:35 UTC (Thu) by w_sang (subscriber, #52415)
Parent article: Finding buffer overflows with Parfait

I think Coccinelle should be mentioned here. It probably works differently, but it has a good set of semantic patches covering different areas of programming mistakes. It already helped fixing quite a number of bugs in the kernel.


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