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Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

Posted Dec 17, 2010 15:11 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
Parent article: Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

As long as people don't go and use the output to blindly "fix" code.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363516


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Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

Posted Dec 18, 2010 12:40 UTC (Sat) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

I think that this was mainly the fault of the code: using unitialised variable without meaningful variable names and pragma to avoid valgrind complaining?
A desaster waiting to happen..
Not fair to blame only the maintainers even though Debian should really use a 'fix upstream before' policy also.

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