A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

Posted Feb 14, 2010 18:31 UTC (Sun) by wingo (guest, #26929)
Parent article: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

I'm amused that they complain about not having access to their customers' source code.

A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

Posted Feb 14, 2010 20:58 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, yes, of course they do. How on earth do they reproduce problems? (In
the classified case, they have to do it without *ever being allowed to
see* the source code. Ow.)

A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

Posted Feb 14, 2010 22:04 UTC (Sun) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] (1 responses)

I think the OP was using sarcasm to make the point that a closed source
project was complaining about lack of access to others source code.

A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

Posted Feb 14, 2010 22:51 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes, that is sort of unfortunate, isn't it? Especially given that it's a
closed-source project that went to considerable extra lengths (to the
degree of replacing their frontend, AIUI) to avoid having to go open. :)