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* [[DeHydra]] is a scriptable static analysis tool. It is useful for finding patterns in the codebase. It has been used to find bugs, produce class diagrams and to infer auto-refactoring candidates in the code.
* [[DeHydra]] is a scriptable static analysis tool. It is useful for finding patterns in the codebase. It has been used to find bugs, produce class diagrams and to infer auto-refactoring candidates in the code.


* [[Outparamdel]] rewrites code using outparameters to utilize the return value instead.
* [[Outparamdel]] rewrites code using outparameters to utilize the return value instead. [http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/08/06/outparams-take-2/ Blog entry]


* [[Prcheck]] is a static analysis tool which produces patches as output. It is useful for correcting bugs that resulting PRBool behaving more like an int than a C++ bool.
* [[Prcheck]] is a static analysis tool which produces patches as output. It is useful for correcting bugs that resulting PRBool behaving more like an int than a C++ bool. [http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/06/26/status-report-recent-work/ Blog entry]


* [[Garburator]] rewrites nsCOMPtrs allocated on the stack into stack variables to assist the [[XPCOMGC]] project.
* [[Garburator]] rewrites nsCOMPtrs allocated on the stack into stack variables to assist the [[XPCOMGC]] project.[http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/09/12/garburator-another-day-another-rewrite-tool/ Blog entry]


* [[Squash]] is now obsolete. It was primarily written to explore how elsa can be utilized to assist with [[Gecko:DeCOMtamination]]. Many rewriting strategies and patching code were first implemented in squash.
* [[Squash]] is now obsolete. It was primarily written to explore how elsa can be utilized to assist with [[Gecko:DeCOMtamination]]. Many rewriting strategies and patching code were first implemented in squash.

Revision as of 19:43, 12 November 2007

Pork is a set of tools built around the elsa C/C++ parser. The primary focus of pork is to provide automated refactoring (Gecko:DeCOMtamination) and static analysis tools for Mozilla2. Pork announcement

Pork is a fork of oink. In the future pork should become a development branch for oink.

More info for pork can be found on Taras' blog.

Requirements

  • GCC 3.4.x or older that can successfully build Mozilla. 64bit Ubuntu, 32bit RHEL/CentOS are known to work. 32bit Ubuntu/Debian feature a linker bug that prevents Mozilla from building with gcc 3.4.6.
  • MCPP is required for refactoring tools
  • SpiderMonkey is required by DeHydra
  • Bison and Flex
  • patchutils are recommended to manage manual and automatic patches
  • MQ extension for hg is recommended. Alternatively, quilt can be used instead.

Tools

Pork is broken down into tools that focus on a specific tasks. The tools can rarely be combined and thus should be applied incrementally.

  • PorkVM is a CentOS virtual machine image with a presetup pork + moz checkout.
  • DeHydra is a scriptable static analysis tool. It is useful for finding patterns in the codebase. It has been used to find bugs, produce class diagrams and to infer auto-refactoring candidates in the code.
  • Prcheck is a static analysis tool which produces patches as output. It is useful for correcting bugs that resulting PRBool behaving more like an int than a C++ bool. Blog entry
  • Squash is now obsolete. It was primarily written to explore how elsa can be utilized to assist with Gecko:DeCOMtamination. Many rewriting strategies and patching code were first implemented in squash.