Hi,
I use klocwork, which doesn't mean it is better it just reports different 
subset of potential errors.

Ignoring malloc errors is your design decision, I don't mind it. 
>From debugging perspective it makes it easier to track it down since you have 
>null ptr dereference somewhere near malloc .
Malloc might start failing as well as just fail once in process live (i.e. some 
other process requested free memory for a short period of time), if an app is 
able to survive it's nice if not then well we have to live with that.

Thanks,
Lukas


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From: hwloc-devel [mailto:hwloc-devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Brice 
Goglin
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 12:57 PM
To: hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org
Subject: Re: [hwloc-devel] Static analysis

Hello

We're running coverity every night and I try to address most of what it
reports (except the netloc/ directory git master which still needs a lot
of work). What tool do you use?

It's true we don't check malloc() return values in many cases (hopefully
only the small allocations), mostly because we're lazy (and also because
many other things would go wrong when malloc starts failing :/)

Brice



Le 12/01/2016 12:23, Odzioba, Lukasz a écrit :
> Hi,
> Static analysis tool we use has found quite a lot of potential issues in 
> hwloc.
> Most of them are type of "NULL ptr dereference" i.e. when pointer is not 
> checked for null after allocation, but there are some more interesting cases 
> as well.
> My team distributes hwloc as a part of software package and we could just 
> ignore those, but I wanted to let you know in case you are interested in 
> fixing some or all of them.
>
> Please let me know If you would like to get a full list, so I'll prepare it.
>
> Thanks,
> Lukas
>
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