svn commit: r296124 - in head: share/man/man7 share/mk sys/conf

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 02:19:33PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 2/26/16 2:14 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > Author: bdrewery
> > Date: Fri Feb 26 22:14:00 2016
> > New Revision: 296124
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296124
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Import bsd.clang-analyze.mk based on NetBSD's version.
> >   
> >   This allows 'make analyze' or 'make OBJ.clang-analyzer' to run the
> >   Clang static analyzer and present results on stdout.
> >   
> >   Obtained from:	NetBSD (CVS Rev. 1.3)
> >   Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5449
> > 
> 
> I just wanted to call special attention to this one.  You may find it
> useful to run in something you maintain.  scan-build can achieve the
> same thing but this one is at least built-in and dependency-free.

The primary limitation is that it only gives the text report and that
generally doesn't include the reasoning, i.e. which pre-conditions the
analyzer has been taking into account for deriving with a specific
warning. That sadly makes it quite a bit less useful.

Joerg