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Wednesday, April 6 • 9:00am - 9:50am
Static Code Checking in the Linux Kernel - Arnd Bergmann, Linaro

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As a maintainer of the arm-soc tree, Arnd is responsible for the quality of a lot of new code that gets merged each release. His dirty secret is that he never runs any of it on real hardware, but that makes static compile-time checking at even more important.

In this presentation, Arnd shows his setup for finding and fixing bugs, and gives an overview of many of the available tools, including kernelc, sparse, coccinelle, clang, checkpatch and coverity.
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Arnd Bergmann

Kernel Developer, Linaro
Arnd Bergmann works for Linaro as one of the maintainers of the arm-soc tree, through which the platform specific code for ARM based SoCs are merged. As a long-time kernel contributor, he has worked on many CPU architectures and subsystems before that, and his current side interests... Read More →

Wednesday April 6, 2016 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
Harbor Ballroom A
  Embedded Linux Conference, Beginner

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