Coverity scan

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From: Paul Floyd <paulf2718_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:20:56 UTC

Hi all

I used to use Coverity Scan occasionally on FreeBSD 
(https://scan.coverity.com/projects/valgrind-official?tab=overview)

The Self-Build tool is no longer available for FreeBSD. The older 
version still works but the Scan web site rejects builds created with 
that version. I contacted Coverity support back in August and they 
confirmed that FreeBSD support has been dropped. My guess is that this 
is at least in part due to Black Duck being spun off from Synopsys to 
private equity firms 
(https://clearlake.com/news/clearlake-and-francisco-partners-complete-acquisition-of-black-duck-software-formerly-known-as-synopsys-software-integrity-group/)

FreeBSD itself used to use Coverity. What is it using now instead? 
clang-tidy?

Is there any chance that this might get reversed? Is the Foundation 
doing anything to try to persuade Black Duck to keep FreeBSD support?


A+

Paul