Maynard, Chris schrieb:
I've been using Gimpel's PC-Lint for a long time and really like it a
lot. It's a commercial product but it's pretty cheap for a single seat
license at $239: http://www.gimpel.com/. PC-Lint runs on Windows, but
their Flexelint product runs on *nix's.
Splint is open-source & free though and should be able to detect similar
problems I would think. I tried it once or twice but was already
comfortable with PC-Lint so I never made the switch:
http://www.splint.org/download.html.
If we want to start using a "lint alike" tool on the buildbot ...
As splint is open source and usually available through the packaging
mechanisms of the Unix platforms I know (this includes cygwin on
Windows), I would think that using splint should really be the way to go.
Years ago I tried splint on a project, by default it returned a lot of
false positives. So IMHO we will need to tweak the configuration a lot
before splint starts to produce useful results for us ...
Anyway, I would try to avoid using commercial products for open source
development where reasonably possible ...
Regards, ULFL
