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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Coverity Scan
From: joey@joeysmith.com (Joey Smith)

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:07:01PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Coverity has run a new scan of trunk and there are a lot of valid
> issues. You have probably noticed that I have started to fix some of
> them, but there are 500+ to go, so I could use some help. The following
> people already have Coverity accounts:
> 
> andi, antony, colder, derick, dmitry, helly, iliaa, jcogg, joey, kmori,
> mike, nickpj, nlopess, phoddie, rui, sas, scottmac, sean, sesser, slif,
> steph, tgoldstein, thiago, wez and zeev
> 
> If you would like to help out and you don't have an account, please send
> me an email or catch me on irc and I will get you set up.
> 
> Once you have an account, go to:
> 
> http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
> 
> And click on the "Sign in" link next to PHP
> 
> If you start working on fixing one of these, please assign it to
> yourself first within the Coverity UI so others will know.
> 
> -Rasmus


A lot of the 'STACK_USE' ones seem to be false positives; it's reporting
when the stack "exceeds the maximum single use of 1024 bytes" - that 1024
is a Coverity-configurable value which defaults to 1024.