[cppcheck] Dangerous usage of strncat in file xf86AutoConfig.c

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 06:13:25 PDT 2009


2009/10/3 Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com>:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, David Gerard wrote:

>> I suggest running the whole server code base through cppcheck, seeing
>> what it comes up with then going through very carefully to work out
>> what's a bug in Xorg code and what's actually a bug in cppcheck.
>> Probably a lot of the latter still.

> mostly its usefulness seems to be to force someone to reread the code


And getting people to justify some ridiculous stupid coding tricks ;-)


- d.


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