Re: sparse (static analyzer) report

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:09:19PM -0800, Mark Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:06:23PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:31:36PM -0800, Mark Wong wrote:
> > > We've also started automating sparse analyses in our PLM tool, which
> > > will show an error and warning count.  Here's an example:
> > >     http://www.osdl.org/plm-cgi/plm?module=patch_info&patch_id=4065
> > 
> > I took a peek at the first sparse report you posted, and it's too noisy
> > to be useful.  The parser seems confused in several ways in thousands of
> > places.
> > 
> > Maybe there's something useful to be extracted, but we'd need to adapt
> > sparse.
> > 
> 
> It might not have helped to dump every source file's report into a
> single file.  Would it have helped to split out the results per file?
> 

Something like this:http://developer.osdl.org/markw/pgsql/sparse/pg-8.0rc5.html

Mark