Frama-C This blog post is on the subject of “code smells” and what is wrong with them. I initially wanted to go with the title “Code smells are crap”. That made it clearer that the title was grammatically a sentence, with “code smells” a nominal group followed by a verb. But...
Read MoreYes, I have read that static analysis post If you are one of the three persons in the world who have not sent me a link to John Carmack's Christmas post on static analysis [removed dead link] go ahead and read it it might interest you. You can stop sending...
Read MoreReminiscing The first benchmark Frama-C's value analysis was ever evaluated on was the Verisec suite, described in "A buffer overflow benchmark for software model checkers". My colleague Géraud Canet was doing the work thence the facetious-colleagues tag of this post. In retrospect Verisec was a solid piece of work. Being...
Read MoreIt is very easy to make snap judgments about other static analyzers when you are yourself working on one. You do not even need to act in bad faith: you just try the other tools on the programs that you worked hard to give interesting results on — difficult examples,...
Read MoreHere is a series of posts that highlight interesting features in the recently released Frama-C Nitrogen 20111001. There is new functionality in Nitrogen, that we hope will entice both existing and prospective users. Other improvements yet will only have meaning for existing users. I will start off with two items...
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