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PHP Static Analysis with HHVM and Hussar

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Shameless plug but currently there's one bug in the postgresql driver for HHVM preventing me from switching our companies projects to HHVM https://github.com/PocketRent/hhvm-pgsql/issues/52

if any charitable mind feel like giving me an hand, I know C++ but I don't know where to apply the fix they are talking about.

Author here.

The project is on github if you want to skip the blog post: https://github.com/wayfair/hussar

Happy to answer any questions!

Very cool, have you tried running it against popular open source projects like wordpress or symfony?

Good suggestion, I've not tried that yet! I'll see about doing that tomorrow. I believe both of those are able to run on HHVM already, so I'd be curious to see what hussar finds.

Here is a first pass over the Wordpress repository: https://gist.github.com/caipre/feb7f9fe46dc2fa90a79

Unfortunately, analyzing symphony caused an HHVM segfault. =( I'm not sure it's the same issue, but this happened to me before: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/4363

This was a good exercise: I was happy to see that hussar adapts pretty easily to outside projects. Basically, I ended up doing this:

  $ git clone git@github.com:Wordpress/Wordpress.git
  $ cd Wordpress
  $ ~/hussar/bin/make-report

There were one or two hiccups that required some manual changes to the scripts; I'll get fixes for these up soon.

That's super interesting and useful. I wonder if any of those issues are real problems in wp. Going to check out this stuff more closely as soon as I find some free time :)

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