Any well-organized CLI is a thing of beauty IMO but that’s above and beyond for static analysis. Thank you!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

David Malcolm of Red Hat’s compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release.

Malcolm has been continuing work on the static analyzer support (-fanalyzer) for the GNU Compiler Collection with yet more enhancements in this area.

For one, GCC 14 gains a new “-Wanalyzer-infinite-loop” option to try to detect simple cases of infinite loops occurring.

Malcolm has worked out some nice text-based diagrams for better showing buffer overflow warnings so developers can better grasp the issue.

Here are two example shared by David Malcolm of the improved ASCII art for visualizing a buffer overflow:

More details on these GCC 14 static analyzer improvements via the Red Hat Developers blog.

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