PC Lint vs. splint

JeanneP · 2004-11-23T18:43:47+00:00

I'm trying to decide which static checker to recommend, and deciding between PC Lint (which costs some cash) and splint (which costs setup time). Does anyone here have experience with both, and can comment on their preference?Has anyone been so dissatisfied with splint that they switched to PC Lint, and did PC Lint solve the problem(s) that caused the dissatisfaction?I have a more specific question, too, for users of PC Lint. I was just browsing the mailing list archives for splint, and found a mention where splint will complain about the following:UINT8 n;static foo(void) { n = 5;}UINT8 n;UINT16 k;static foo(void) { n = k;}

Nov 23, 2004 23 Replies

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Paul E. Bennett 21 years ago

Sounds like you may also benefit from installing a decent version control system with sand-boxing capabilities. That way you would not affect the other projects in a haphazard way. They could get to benefit from updates of the common source tree when they were good and ready for it.

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Kevin D. Quitt 21 years ago

Check out subversion:

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Oliver Betz 21 years ago

[PC-Lint vs. splint]

Yes, me. Splint has (had?) problems with some non-ANSI (legacy) "extensions" of embedded compilers. Look at the Splint mailing list archive or search for my posting here dated 2003-05-17, Message-ID .

And the already mentioned problems when assigning literals to U8 are really annoying in embedded environments where this happens often.

Oliver

Oliver Betz, Muenchen (oliverbetz.de)

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Rufus V. Smith 21 years ago

If the company even exists by the time that happens!

It's too bad there's not a law requiring companies discontinuing software known to be in current use to place it in the public domain...

Rufus

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