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@@ -29,12 +29,58 @@ The procedure to create a patch is essentially: - correct the patch and re-send it according to review feedback Your patch (or commit) should be a "good patch": focus it on a single -issue, and make it be easily reviewable. Don't make +issue, and make it easily reviewable. Don't make it so large that it's hard to review; split large -patches into smaller ones. (That can also help -track down bugs later on.) All patches should +patches into smaller ones (this will also help +to track down bugs later). All patches should be "clean", which includes preserving the existing -coding style and updating documentation as needed. +coding style and updating documentation as needed. When adding a new +command, the corresponding documentation should be added to +@c doc/openocd.texi in the same commit. OpenOCD runs on both Little +Endian and Big Endian hosts so the code can't count on specific byte +ordering (in other words, must be endian-clean). + +There are several additional methods of improving the quality of your +patch: + +- Runtime testing with Valgrind Memcheck + + This helps to spot memory leaks, undefined behaviour due to + uninitialized data or wrong indexing, memory corruption, etc. + +- Clang Static Analyzer + + Using this tool uncovers many different kinds of bugs in C code, + with problematic execution paths fully explained. It is a part of + standard Clang installation. + + To generate a report, run this in the OpenOCD source directory: + @code + mkdir build-scanbuild; cd build-scanbuild + scan-build ../configure + scan-build make CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -I. -I../../jimtcl" + @endcode + +- Runtime testing with sanitizers + + Both GCC and LLVM/Clang include advanced instrumentation options to + detect undefined behaviour and many kinds of memory + errors. Available with @c -fsanitize=* command arguments. + + Example usage: + @code + mkdir build-sanitizers; cd build-sanitizers + ../configure CC=clang CFLAGS="-fno-omit-frame-pointer \ + -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -ggdb3" + make + export ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_stack_use_after_return=1 + src/openocd -s ../tcl -f /path/to/openocd.cfg + @endcode + +Please consider performing these additonal checks where appropriate +(especially Clang Static Analyzer for big portions of new code) and +mention the results (e.g. "Valgrind-clean, no new Clang analyzer +warnings") in the commit message. Say in the commit message if it's a bugfix (describe the bug) or a new feature. Don't expect patches to merge immediately |