Adium and the clang static analysis tool

[Thijs Alkemade]

> On 16 apr. 2015, at 01:26, Bradley Bunk <bradbunk94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good evening,
> 
> I am working on a school project in which I have to give a presentation on a testing tool of choice; I chose the clang static analysis tool. Adium is one of the few projects I have found that actively uses the tool. I am curious to know how and or why the community chose and or chooses to use the tool and or how you integrate it into your build/testing work flow. I apologize if this is not the intended use of this email list, I could not find any documentation on clang and or your testing approach in the wiki (this may be due to my own incompetence and or ignorance.), and I am genuinely curious to know about it and or to be able to test the code my self.
> 
> thank you for your time,
> 
> Bradley Bunk

Hi Bradley,

In the past I’ve used the static analyzer tool a couple of times, mostly for the 1.6 branch if I remember correctly. It is not integrated into our workflow automatically, I’ve only ran it manually.

I don’t actually know any other static analyzers (especially with support for Objective-C), so I can’t answer why I chose it over other things. It worked quite well for me (pros: quite fast, easy to understand the warnings it gives, easy to use), and it’s even integrated with Xcode (thought I didn’t use that myself).

I hope that answers your questions, feel free to ask more, this list is definitely the right place for that.

Best regards,
Thijs Alkemade