Hang on there. Why are you using your talents on a project that may save 1000s when you could be working in vaccination projects that could save 10s of 1000s? Wait! Forget that. You and those time wasting vaccination workers should be focused on biotechnology that could create crops to feed millions world wide!

Hold it! Scratch that. Global warming will end up destroying the entire planet. Get those lay-about biotech-crop workers on that!

Wait! Heat death of the universe. Only billions of years away and effects EVERYTHING. Stop wasting time on trivial projects and solve the most important problem in the universe! /thread

I agree, there are free tools that do this. Some are pretty good (cppcheck). I'm not going to pimp for Coverity (or other $$ products) but I will say that they offer features over and above what the free stuff does. They also have a pretty high cost. A few of the features are actually very nice additional analysis that I haven't found in free stuff. The majority of the stuff offered by commercial products are based around integration into a large multi-developer environment and defect tracking processes. As always, you (or your organization) needs to figure out the cost vs benefit before committing to any (free or $$) tool.

That's fine if it's expected (and you can tell your SA tool that it's expected so it's not flagged). Unreachable code that's not expected is a maintenance issue at best and and in many cases indicates a software defect. At the very least wouldn't you want to be made aware that your unreachable code?

Coverity performs "Static Analysis". Static analysis is a well respected technique in the industry and can find classes of software defects that are typically difficult to find through code inspection and testing.

Specifically it can analyze entire call chains and find access to null or un-initialized variables. Compilers typically only do this within a single compilation unit (i.e. a file) while an SA tool like Coverity will do it over an entire call chain over multiple files.

Other classes of defects that SA will find:
- Memory leaks or double frees
- variables passed out of range
- unreachable code
- Buffer overruns (BUFFER OVERRUNS!)
- Sign issues

It can be very painful to start using SA late in your project development. Getting a clean SA run is a major pain since you've probably got tons of little errors. Once you have a clean run (or if you start with SA analysis) keeping it clean saves you major headaches (and keeps your code reviews a little less frustrating)

When they finally bought me a second monitor at work it was a widescreen format. That didn't work all that well with the existing 4x5 aspect ratio. So I took my new monitor and turned it 90 deg. Thankfully the mount supported this. So now I have my original monitor for general web/mail and my new monitor is where the coding gets done. Having a monitor that has 50% more vertical real estate is awesome for working on code and documents.

Sorry, you've expended your geek cred. The ONLY si unit for time is "second". Hour is not an si unit any more than a "foot" is an si unit.

When I got home yesterday my daughter asked me "Will you help me make pumpkin pie if I go get the stuff for it?" I said "sure" because opportunities to hang out with my daughter are rare to be sure. So we're making pumpkin pie, well she is, I'm just there for moral support I guess.

I ask "So what is the pie for?"
She says "Tomorrow is pi day so I'm bringing pie to school"
I say "Oh, cool"

Inside I'm thinking "How the fuck did I get shit this right?"

signed,
stumbling into success

Check out "Old Man's War" by Jhon Scalzi.

Old people are shipped off Earth to fight an interstellar war. Obviously they get some "refurbishing". They even get to keep some of it if they survive...

Facebook is for "Old" and "Young". Google+ won't allow you to sign up if you're under 18.

That might be an artifact of "beta".

" Measuring 1,000 meters high and two miles long,"

Other interesting facts
It took 3 fortnights to build
The length of all the letters is 2.3 leagues
The entire name can hold 1000 mega hogsheads of seawater
The estimated cost of the monument is 500 Million Drachmars

Oh Waa you were so close. It's sad really, but keep trying!

He is keeping it at his brothers farm for his SON. So when his son drives it in rebellion he will have to retrieve it from his UNCLES farm.

I actually use LYNX to access my bank accounts!