The coccinellery repository provides many little semantic patches to fix common
problems in the code. The number of semantic patches in the coccinellery
repository is high and most of the semantic patches apply only for Linux, so it
doesn't make sense to run them on regular basis as the processing takes a lot of
time.
The list of issue found in BIND 9, by no means complete, includes:
- double assignment to a variable
- `continue` at the end of the loop
- double checks for `NULL`
- useless checks for `NULL` (cannot be `NULL`, because of earlier return)
- using `0` instead of `NULL`
- useless extra condition (`if (foo) return; if (!foo) { ...; }`)
- removing & in front of static functions passed as arguments
3523. [contrib] Ported filesystem and ldap DLZ drivers to
dynamically-loadable modules, and added the
"wildcard" module based on a contribution from
Vadim Goncharov <vgoncharov@nic.ru>. [RT #23569]
Ondřej Surý
Mark AndrewsandEvan Hunt