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[RISKS?] Dependability Issues with the AOO Code?

[BCC AOO PMC]

An interesting link came to my attention today:
<http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0308/>.

The analysis did not use the Apache OpenOffice code base.  Because of common heritage from OpenOffice.org code, I expect most of the analysis to be applicable.

The conclusion might not be so favorable in our case, absent a systematic approach to AOO maintenance, especially around dependability problems.


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Re: [RISKS?] Dependability Issues with the AOO Code?

Posted by Don Lewis <tr...@apache.org>.
On  1 Mar, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> [BCC AOO PMC]
> 
> An interesting link came to my attention today:
> <http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0308/>.
> 
> The analysis did not use the Apache OpenOffice code base.  Because of
> common heritage from OpenOffice.org code, I expect most of the
> analysis to be applicable.
> 
> The conclusion might not be so favorable in our case, absent a
> systematic approach to AOO maintenance, especially around
> dependability problems.

Modern compilers warn about a lot of questionable code.  Unfortunately
our build logs are currently so full of warnings from modern compilers,
I think it it easy for this signal to be obscured by the noise.  That is
something that I'm interested in tackling.


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