ci: Add Coverity Scan workflow for static analysis #14415
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For additional future context, we investigated and got this working, but the output was too noisy. The recommended way to reduce false-positives is by writing so-called modeling files, which are poorly documented and must be manually uploaded on the Coverity website. Moreover, the analysis took a very long time to run with us spending multiple days in the queue, which further discouraged us from attempting to write modeling files, and new builds are needed for them to take effect. |
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Motivation
Coverity is a really powerful C/++ static analysis tool that is free for FOSS, this is just to see if it could work for us at all.
This will fail while the secret is not added to the repo, which is pending discussion in today's team meeting.
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