RFR: 8362516: Support of GCC static analyzer (-fanalyzer)

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:17:47 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Recent versions of GCC have a static code analyzer option (-fanalyzer) that works quite well for C code (but it has still issues with C++).
> This can be used to identify e.g. some leaks like memory leaks, double close, use of uninitialized data etc. .
> Some info about it :
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Static-Analyzer-Options.html
> https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/31/improvements-static-analysis-gcc-13-compiler

Usage is  `--enable-static-analyzer --disable-warnings-as-errors`   (if warnings as errors are not disabled, we ru n into warnings generated by the analyzer).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26989#issuecomment-3233940427