Re: Misra rule 10.3 violations report script

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 09:34, Luca Fancellu wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> Hi Luca,
> > 
> > In the last MISRA meeting Stefano told me about the Rule 10.3 and that we
> > have a lot of violations,
> > but GCC has a way to list them as written in rules.rst.
> > 
> > So the issue was just that we have a lot of violations, most of them coming
> > from headers and the
> > Developer might feel a bit lost since the number is very high, so I’ve
> > developed this script to take
> > the GCC build log and create a list of unique occurrences of the violations
> > sorted in descending
> > order, so that who has a bit of time can try to fix some of those and maybe
> > can start from the top
> > of the list to fix as many as possible occurrences.
> > 
> > I attach the script as patch file.
> 
> This is an excellent script to see the violations in a neat way. For eg, I see
> this
> 
> arch/arm/domain_build.c:3883:28 (1)
> arch/arm/domain_build.c:3910:36 (1)
> ./include/xen/pfn.h:6:23 (1)
> ./include/xen/macros.h:4:40 (1)
> arch/arm/setup.c:221:10 (1)
> arch/arm/setup.c:227:59 (1)
> 
> I think once in a while, we have been approached by newbies wanting to
> contribute to Xen project.
> 
> For eg "Beginner looking to contribute to project in archived list"
> 
> Sometimes people reach out individually as well.
> 
> Do you have such similar tasks (like this) within or beyond the scope of MISRA
> which will require some basic programming skills and is a great first step to
> learn and contribute to Xen project ?
> 
> This can be things which students/folks can contribute on an ad-hoc basis.
> 
> I can work with Kelly to see if we can put them in a wiki page.

That's a great idea


> I could see https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects , but
> don't know if it is up to date.

I don't think it is