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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:09:44 -0400
From: David Arnstein <arnstein AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Coverity Scan
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:53:24AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We use coverity at work.  It is annoying and it does have false positive
> but a lot of what look like false positives often turn out to be:  "Oh,
> wait.  (#*(&$  Yeah.  That's a problem."

I use Coverity as well, and I find it to be excellent. The latest version
finds copy and paste errors. In particular, it recently issued two
complaints about such errors. In both cases, Coverity was correct, a
developer really had done copy-and-paste twice, introducing an error
each time.

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