[Vorbis-dev] Coverity and libvorbis

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Sat May 19 09:14:07 PDT 2007


On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:11:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> To fix these bugs Coverity need a repesentative from the project to
> contact them for access to the coverity reporting facilities.

They actually talked to us on irc. I asked the report be sent to monty 
and myself at least, but haven't heard anything. Sending it here would 
be better. :P

> The reason I am keen to see Xiph take up this challenge is that when
> all projects listed on the above page address the issues listed,
> all of the projects can move to the next rung where more of the
> Coverity tests are enabled.

Everquest for developers!

> My project libsndfile is on the same list as libvorbis and libsndfile
> can't move forward until the libvorbis issues have been fixed. For
> the record, the Coverity tool found 8 possible issues with libsndfile,
> 5 of which were false positives, but 3 of which were genuine bugs.

Have you taken a look at the libvorbis bugs?

 -r


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