Frama-C A high-profile maintainer to a large Open-Source project recently found himself involved in a discussion in which at some point after having explained his arguments—I think—very clearly he had to call someone else a moron. Now everyone with write access to the internet is weighting in on how this is...
Read MoreOn a recent occasion to visit the USA on a professional basis, I nearly declined. I had a lengthy explanation ready for my refusal, and it might even have become a rant-tagged blog post. I finally went, so that hypothetical blog post never became. Today, I feel I have been...
Read MoreWhen I created a Facebook account, I did something that I fully expect will be made a felony before 2030: I filled the inquisitive, mandatory field on the electronic form with false information. You see, Facebook was asking me about my birth date, which it didn't need to know. There...
Read MoreA meta-article on benchmarking Some colleagues and I are about to submit this article on the subject of benchmarking static analyzers. Rather than another benchmark it is a list of general recommendations and pitfalls when benchmarking static analyzers. The article is illustrated on C program constructs because that's what we...
Read MoreFrama-C has a mailing-list. It's a place people visit for free to complain that they are not getting the quality, technical, detailed answers that they deserve, and to tell us what our priorities should be. I expressed my opinion about the mailing list a long time ago in this very...
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