Re: sparse (static analyzer) report

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:06:23PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:31:36PM -0800, Mark Wong wrote:
> > We've also started automating sparse analyses in our PLM tool, which
> > will show an error and warning count. Here's an example:
> > http://www.osdl.org/plm-cgi/plm?module=patch_info&patch_id=4065
>
> I took a peek at the first sparse report you posted, and it's too noisy
> to be useful. The parser seems confused in several ways in thousands of
> places.
>
> Maybe there's something useful to be extracted, but we'd need to adapt
> sparse.
>

It might not have helped to dump every source file's report into a
single file. Would it have helped to split out the results per file?

Mark