// This file is part of the Doxygen Developer Manual
/** @page patchguide Patch Guidelines
-\attention If you're behind a corporate wall with http only access to the
-world, you can still use these instructions!
-
\attention You can't send patches to the mailing list anymore at all. Nowadays
you are expected to send patches to the OpenOCD Gerrit GIT server for a
review.
+\attention If you already have a Gerrit account and want to try a
+different sign in method, please first sign in as usually, press your
+name in the upper-right corner, go to @a Settings, select @a
+Identities pane, press <em>Link Another Identity</em> button. In case
+you already have duplicated accounts, ask administrators for manual
+merging.
+
+\attention If you're behind a corporate wall with http only access to the
+world, you can still use these instructions!
+
@section gerrit Submitting patches to the OpenOCD Gerrit server
OpenOCD is to some extent a "self service" open source project, so to
- correct the patch and re-send it according to review feedback
Your patch (or commit) should be a "good patch": focus it on a single
-issue, and make it be easily reviewable. Don't make
+issue, and make it easily reviewable. Don't make
it so large that it's hard to review; split large
-patches into smaller ones. (That can also help
-track down bugs later on.) All patches should
+patches into smaller ones (this will also help
+to track down bugs later). All patches should
be "clean", which includes preserving the existing
-coding style and updating documentation as needed.
+coding style and updating documentation as needed. When adding a new
+command, the corresponding documentation should be added to
+@c doc/openocd.texi in the same commit. OpenOCD runs on both Little
+Endian and Big Endian hosts so the code can't count on specific byte
+ordering (in other words, must be endian-clean).
+
+There are several additional methods of improving the quality of your
+patch:
+
+- Runtime testing with Valgrind Memcheck
+
+ This helps to spot memory leaks, undefined behaviour due to
+ uninitialized data or wrong indexing, memory corruption, etc.
+
+- Clang Static Analyzer
+
+ Using this tool uncovers many different kinds of bugs in C code,
+ with problematic execution paths fully explained. It is a part of
+ standard Clang installation.
+
+ To generate a report, run this in the OpenOCD source directory:
+ @code
+ mkdir build-scanbuild; cd build-scanbuild
+ scan-build ../configure
+ scan-build make CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -I. -I../../jimtcl"
+ @endcode
+
+- Runtime testing with sanitizers
+
+ Both GCC and LLVM/Clang include advanced instrumentation options to
+ detect undefined behaviour and many kinds of memory
+ errors. Available with @c -fsanitize=* command arguments.
+
+ Example usage:
+ @code
+ mkdir build-sanitizers; cd build-sanitizers
+ ../configure CC=clang CFLAGS="-fno-omit-frame-pointer \
+ -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -ggdb3"
+ make
+ export ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_stack_use_after_return=1
+ src/openocd -s ../tcl -f /path/to/openocd.cfg
+ @endcode
+
+Please consider performing these additonal checks where appropriate
+(especially Clang Static Analyzer for big portions of new code) and
+mention the results (e.g. "Valgrind-clean, no new Clang analyzer
+warnings") in the commit message.
Say in the commit message if it's a bugfix (describe the bug) or a new
feature. Don't expect patches to merge immediately
The code review is intended to take as long as a week or two to allow
maintainers and contributors who work on OpenOCD only in their spare
-time oportunity to perform a review and raise objections.
+time opportunity to perform a review and raise objections.
With Gerrit much of the urgency of getting things committed has been
removed as the work in progress is safely stored in Gerrit and
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