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memcached/memcached

288 files 17 languages 83,077 total lines @2d51e36 analysed just now

Memcached is a high performance multithreaded event-based key/value cache…

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01Overview

memcached · 61,767 lines of actual code
288
Files
61,767
Code lines
10,228
Comments
17
Languages
10,052
Complexity
0
Secrets
Line Composition 83,077 total lines
Code61,76774.3%
Blank11,08213.3%
Comments10,22812.3%
~99%
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02Languages & Tech Stack

what it’s written in, what it depends on

Language Breakdown

Language
Files
Code
Share
C
56
31,018
50.2%
Raku
114
11,860
19.2%
C Header
37
6,016
9.7%
Plain Text
9
3,105
5.0%
Lua
27
2,249
3.6%
XML
4
1,638
2.7%
Perl
5
830
1.3%
Document Type Definition
1
245
0.4%
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
2
162
0.3%
+ 8 more
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660
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Tech Stack  (21 detected)

Standard Library 1159 modules POSIX 5911 modules OpenSSL 3

03Notable Files

where complexity and size live

Most Complex

FileLinesCx
memcached.c5,0841,328
proto_text.c1,413503
proxy_luafgen.c1,564486
xxhash.h2,638423
items.c1,404410
testapp.c1,949395
proto_parser.c1,519390
proxy_lua.c1,525340
proto_bin.c1,127327
proxy_network.c1,141323

Largest

FileLinesCx
memcached.c5,0841,328
xxhash.h2,638423
testapp.c1,949395
proxy_luafgen.c1,564486
proxy_lua.c1,525340
proto_parser.c1,519390
doc/protocol.txt1,4270
proto_text.c1,413503
items.c1,404410
doc/protocol-binary.xml1,3790

04Code Quality

style, correctness, and maintainability findings

By Severity & Category

Warning
550
Info
833
Error
26
Total
1,409
By Category
correctness 822 deprecated 16 maintainability 221 performance 4 security 346

Top Findings

Critical: gets() is inherently unsafe and can lead to buffer overflows. Use fgets() instead.
authfile.c:60
Critical: Potential double-free detected. Freeing the same pointer twice leads to undefined behavior and possible security vulnerabilities. ×4
extstore.c:310 + 3 more

05Secrets & Credentials

pattern-based scan for hardcoded secrets
✓   No hardcoded credentials or secret patterns detected. Pattern-based scan only — does not catch logic-level vulnerabilities.

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