Re: Misra rule 10.3 violations report script

[Ayan Kumar Halder <ayankuma@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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

> Cheers,
> Luca