Remove coverity from the DevGuide #1411
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development-tools/clang.rst
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| Clang and its sanitizers have strengths (and weaknesses). Its just one tool in | |||
| the war chest to uncovering bugs and improving code quality. Clang should be | |||
| used to complement other methods, including Code Reviews, Valgrind, Coverity, | |||
| used to complement other methods, including Code Reviews, Valgrind, | |||
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Question, do we have more info about "Valgrind"? It was mentioned only once on the entire devguide.
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How to use valgrind? What is it for?
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Valgrind is a tool for finding C-level memory issues, like memory leaks or writes to uninitialized memory.
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It's documented here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Misc/README.valgrind
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Interesting, we also have a https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Misc/README.coverity that perhaps should be cleaned up from the repo.
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Yeah I found references to coverity on the CPython repo. In addition to README.coverity,
also Misc\coverity_model.c
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It's documented here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Misc/README.valgrind
I updated to link to that doc. Thanks.
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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Related CPython PR: python/cpython#124460 |
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The CPython Coverity Scan hasn't been updated since 2020.
People listed as admins and experts of coverity scan are no longer administering/maintaining it.
On Discord, it was decided to drop this from CPython core workflow.
Closes #1410
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