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Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of gcc
- From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: ben at coverity dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:09:48 -0800
- Subject: Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of gcc
- References: <440BCA04.1090104@coverity.com>
On 3/5/06, Ben Chelf <ben@coverity.com> wrote:
> Right now, we're guarding access to the actual defects that we report
> for a couple of reasons: (1) We think that you, as developers of gcc,
> should have the chance to look at the defects we find to patch them
> before random other folks get to see what we found and (2) From a
> support perspective, we want to make sure that we have the appropriate
> time to engage with those who want to use the results to fix the code.
I think it's great that you're contributing the results of your
analysis to the GCC project. Is this part of the work sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, described in
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909946,00.asp>?