First of all, I'm not on this, so I assume you know the deal.
During the very interesting talk of Martin Michlmayr about Debian QA this morning, I had an idea: Why not use a static source checker to detect common simple mistakes like assumptions about the (un)signedness of char which can cause problems on non-i386 and automatically let the maintainers know about them? That's only one example of course. I don't have the knowledge nor do I think I'll have the time to do it myself, but I thought I'd bring it up here regardless. I provide a link to information about the Stanford Metacompilation Project, hoping that it might be useful: http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/mc-osdi.ps -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
