[Swig-devel] Coverity static code analysis

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

I've got the Coverity static code analysis up and running again. It is 
now easy to view the results of the analysis and run the tools after 
making changes. It does require a login though, so if anyone is 
interested in seeing this tool in action and fix a SWIG coding bug at 
the same time, please contact me.

We've got a minimal set of checkers enabled at the moment. A full list 
of possible checkers are here: 
http://scan5.coverity.com:8080/docs/en/cov_checker_ref.html. I've just 
fixed a pile of the latest major problems it found but there are 25 
issues still outstanding. They are mostly fairly simple to analyse and 
fix. If you're interested in code static analysis, it is a good 
opportunity to get familiar with this particular tool - I think it is 
quite impressive as false positives are relatively low.

Getting started info including a short video: 
http://scan.coverity.com/start/. Full docs: 
http://scan5.coverity.com:8080/docs/en/index.html.

William