Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of X

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Mar 15 15:50:35 PST 2006


On Monday 06 March 2006 02:09, Ben Chelf wrote:
> Hello X Developers,
>
>    I'm the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code
> analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our
> technology from its days at Stanford (the "Stanford Checker"). The
> reason I'm writing is because we have set up a framework internally to
> continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our
> analysis back to the developers of those projects. X is one of the 32
> projects currently scanned at:
>
> http://scan.coverity.com

I just want to extend thanks on behalf of Xorg for this donation of resources 
to the project.  The Coverity results have found bugs at every level of the 
code, and given the amount of historical baggage and neglect as X carries, we 
certainly need all the help we can get.

- ajax
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