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The static analyzer is extremely useful. Why aren’t people running it?

• pjmlp 9y ago
  Because reasons. See Herb Sutter's talk at CppCon 2015. At a given moment he asks the audience if they use any kind of static analysis tools. About 1% of the audience said they were using one. Which is why everything that requires external tooling, instead of being part of the language is easily ignored.
  • mikeash 9y ago
    Would it help if the static analyzer were folded into clang itself and enabled with a flag (-Wanalyze?) rather than using a separate tool? That way it could just be a slight tweaking of build flags, and left enabled if it performs well on a given code base, rather than requiring extra work and thought.
    • pjmlp 9y ago
      Well it helped when XCode came out with integrated clang static analysis, vs with the largely ignored lint.
• cwzwarich 9y ago
  The main reason people avoid static analysis is excessive false positives.