[HP aCC 6.16] many cadvise warnings

• Key: STDCXX-726
• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Martin Sebor
• Reporter: Martin Sebor
• Component/s: Build and Installation
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.2

Environment

$ uname -sr && aCC -V
HP-UX B.11.31
aCC: HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.16 [Nov 26 2007]

Description

The HP aCC 6.15 and 6.16 builds are full of cadvise (static analysis tool) warnings:

$ W=`  gunzip -c hpux-11.31-ia64-acc-6.15-15S-620132-log.gz \
     | sed -n "s/.*: warning #\(2[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)-.:.*/\1/p" \
     | sort | uniq`; \
  for w in $W; do \
    n=`gunzip -c hpux-11.31-ia64-acc-6.15-15S-620132-log.gz | grep ": warning #$w-.:" | wc -l`; \
    echo "$w $n"; \
  done
20200 110
20201 13
20203 5
20206 8
20210 2

The warnings are:

Warning	Description
20200	Potential null pointer dereference is detected
20201	Memory leak is detected
20203	Potential out of scope use of local variable
20206	Out of bound access
20210	Mismatch in allocation and deallocation