Hello, The tool is amazing :)
I am very interested in how does it work, is there any paper published on this topic? Thanks in advance! Xin LI, Beijing University of Technology ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Twohey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 8:01 AM Subject: [CHECKER] bugs in FreeBSD > Hi, > > I'm with the Stanford Metacompilation research group. We have a suite of > checkers that find bugs at compile time and we've had quite a bit of > success checking the Linux kernel code for errors. Since our checkers can > emit false alarms we filter the reports before we give them to the kernel > developers. While some false alarms slip past us to the developers, our > limited knowledge of the kernel allows us to recognize most of them. > > We are currently trying to extend our checker to automatically find > functions which allocate resources and to make sure those resources are > properly disposed of. > > Enclosed is a list of potential bugs in FreeBSD where a value is returned > from a function (like malloc) that should be owned by the caller and the > caller does not properly dispose of the value with the appropriate > disposal routine (like free). _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"