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RE: [cdt-dev] Static Analysis Framework for CDT

Then I suggest that you need to take a closer look at the CDT core ;)
Markus's EclipseCon presentation would be a great place to start.

Doug.

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:21 -0400, Dominique Toupin wrote:
> In practice I don't think CDT parser has the same info/capability as
> GCC, GCC has a lot of info about the code and we can do advance static
> analysis (not grep like) with this info.
> I am not suggesting to integrate GCC code into CDT, the GCC static
> analysis would be an external tool just like GCC/GDB today.
> Even if it's an external tool it brings a lot of features to CDT, it's
> just like compile (GCC) and debug (GDB) today.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
> > Sent: 17-Apr-09 09:52
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Static Analysis Framework for CDT
> > 
> > My bigger concern is that all GCC plug-ins must be GPL. I'd 
> > especially be worried about plug-ins written specifically for 
> > the CDT and whether that affects the definition of "derived" 
> > and thus, causing us legal grief.
> > 
> > At any rate, theoretically, the CDT parsers already create 
> > the same information that gcc would. And we can avoid any 
> > legal problems that way.
> > 
> > Doug.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:43 -0400, Elena Laskavaia wrote:
> > > GCC plugins means it would be part of GCC which is external 
> > to eclipse?
> > > If so it can be just run as external and not part of the 
> > framework which is Java based.
> > > 
> > > Dominique Toupin wrote:
> > > > Hi Elena,
> > > > 
> > > > If you are doing simple rules, CDT alone should be OK but if you 
> > > > need complicated rules (e.g. data-flow analysis) then you 
> > might want 
> > > > to also look at GCC plugin 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins, they 
> > > > did progress and hopefully the architecture will be 
> > resolve for the 
> > > > GCC summit (http://gccsummit.org/2009/), some CDT committers will 
> > > > also attend the GCC summit (at least Francois and Marc).
> > > > 
> > > > Last year at the GCC summit some static analysis tools 
> > based on GCC 
> > > > where presented e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Treehydra,
> > > > 
> > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Dehydra?rdfrom=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.m
> > > > ozil la.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DDehydra_GCC%26redirect%3Dno.
> > > > 
> > > > If we can have good static analysis rules with GCC 
> > plugins it will 
> > > > make sense to integrate those into CDT.
> > > > 
> > > > Dominique
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elena Laskavaia
> > > >> Sent: 16-Apr-09 22:44
> > > >> To: CDT General developers list.
> > > >> Subject: [cdt-dev] Static Analysis Framework for CDT
> > > >>
> > > >> This is something I am doing in my spare time - I want to create 
> > > >> static analysis framework for CDT, light weigh set of 
> > classes that 
> > > >> allow to have common interface for dealing with problems 
> > produced 
> > > >> by static analysis tools (and some default checkers, 
> > such what JDT 
> > > >> has, i.e Potential Null Pointer Dereference, etc).
> > > >>
> > > >> See design details at: 
> > > >> http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/designs/StaticAnalysis
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