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by m0zg 2520 days ago
Don't know about Coverity, but a customer did a Fortify scan on our code last year (as a part of acceptance), and it didn't find any issues. Which I find really hard to believe that there aren't any issues, seeing that the codebase is 200KLOC of pretty gnarly C++ with probably another 500KLOC in source-level C++ deps (we compile from source where we can). Either the team was comprised entirely of gods of C++ programming, or it doesn't really "fortify" all that much. I'll let you decide which one is more probable.