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Re:Checked C by ryao on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:45PM (#34089536)
Which ones did you try?

The only static analyzers that I am allowed to say have stood out to me are:

* Clang's static analyzer

* GCC's static analyzer with -Wno-analyzer-malloc-leak -Wno-analyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value -Wno-analyzer-null-dereference because those three checks are uniquely buggy. `-Wanalyzer-null-dereference` fails to understand assertions. `-Wanalyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value` fails to recognize initialization from pass by pointer. `-Wanalyzer-malloc-leak` is so buggy that out of the 32 reports it made, only 1 was real, but it was right before an `exit()` call in a test suite, so it was not a particularly interesting report. Unfortunately, I do not have notes describing why that check is buggy.

Note that I am restricted by Coverity's Scan User Agreement from saying anything involving Coverity that could constitute a comparison. I suggest that you look at the public information about its use by myself and draw your own conclusions. Keep in mind, your conclusions are not things that I said.

Re:Checked C by WalterBright on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:33AM (#34090814)
I think it was PC-something, but it was several years ago.

I once told the Coverity staff that the purpose of D was to put Coverity out of business (!)

Re:Checked C by ryao on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:41AM (#34090863)
Was it PC-Lint?

That was probably a bad choice. John Carmack did not rate it very highly:

http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on-static-code-anal...

Re:Checked C by WalterBright on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:19PM (#34098095)
No, not that one. Maybe PVS-xxxx
Re:Checked C by ryao on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:36PM (#34099085)
Here is a list of almost every known static analysis tool for C++:

https://analysis-tools.dev/tag/cpp

The only one I know to exist absent from that list is Microsoft’s /analyze.

That said, I am surprised that D only has 1 tool listed:

https://analysis-tools.dev/tag/dlang

Re:Checked C by mre on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:18AM (#34106031)
Maintainer of the list here. Thanks for mentioning it. I have not heard of Microsoft's analyze. Could you paste a link here? I will add it to the list, then. Alternatively you could send a pull request to the repository. ;) https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis
Re:Checked C by ryao on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:48PM (#34192987)
It is a static analyzer built into Microsoft Visual Studio:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/analyz...

The only reason I know about it is that John Carmack rated it highly:

http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on-static-code-anal...