Ah, I used EDG for static analysis, but joined when we were switching over to using Clang for the frontend. I can't say for sure, but part of it was definitely just to save money using open source. The code that was hacked on top of EDG was also ridiculous, so there was a lot of accumulated tech debt there.
Looking back at that code definitely brings back memories. As a consumer of both frontends, I will say I much preferred working with Clang's. Both needed extra work on top to support everything we needed. Maybe I'm just not as acquainted with C as I would like to be. It's cool to look at this again, though.
I looked into using static analysis on an ancient Borland C++ codebase some decades ago, I quickly found out that a tiny software shop in New Jersey - Edison Design Group - were, at the time, pretty much the only ones who had modeled enough actual C++ implementation behavior to possibly do meaningful static analysis. (Not as far back as our Borland C++ version though, lol).
etyp · · focus · HN ↗
Looking back at that code definitely brings back memories. As a consumer of both frontends, I will say I much preferred working with Clang's. Both needed extra work on top to support everything we needed. Maybe I'm just not as acquainted with C as I would like to be. It's cool to look at this again, though.
vintermann · · focus · HN ↗