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Re:Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++ by Animats on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:36PM (#34637193)
Is it really that good? 100% verification, 0 false positives?
Re:Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++ by aeneasmackenzie on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:15AM (#34637421)
> In contrast, thanks to its modularity and domain-awareness, Astrée can be made exceptionally precise, often to the point of pro­ducing exactly zero false alarms.

I will guess that when analyzing avionics code with no memory allocation it is perfect, and when analyzing other code it is merely great. I wonder what the recruiting pipeline from INRIA into AbsInt is like.

Re:Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++ by KsassPeuk on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:14AM (#34638585)
On this kind of analysis, it strongly depends on the features that are used in the analyzed code and its degree of complexity. An analysis that is entirely automatic, detect every mistake and only mistakes is not possible in the general case.