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Adopting what static analyzers do is a no-go, as they rely on non-local reasoning, even across translation units for lifetime and aliasing analysis. Their output highly depend on what they can see, and they generally can't see the source code for the whole program. I also doubt that they promise any kind of stability in their output across versions.

This is a not a jab against static analyzers, by all means use them, but I don't think they are a good fit as part of the language.




Yeah, yet that is exactly the approach being pushed by those on the profiles camp.

Further, the clang tidy and VC++ analysis based on some of the previous work, e.g. lifetime analysis paper from 2015, barely work, full of false positives.

I was looking forward to it in VC++, and to this day in VC++ latest, it still leaves too much on the table.




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