released smatch 1.54

I am in Nairobi now. It costs less than $0.50 per hour to use internet here.

Nairobi has at one fibre connection to the outside world. It got connected last September. There are several others connecting soon. I used to follow the status closely but I have been mostly offline these past two years.

I released smatch 1.54. The announcement is here.

In some ways, I wish I had fixed it up a bit more before releasing. In other ways, release early and often.

I think the array overflow bugs from smatch 1.54 are interesting. The thing is that after a while all the interesting bugs get fixed and you are left with a discouraging pile of false positives. You have to have regular releases, with new checks because otherwise people think it's just false positives all the time.

[updated: I accidentally said it cost $1 to surf the net in Nairobi but I meant $.50 ]