Need your recommendations

[Dave Theese]

Hello all,

Can anybody recommend a newsgroup for me to check out that discusses tools
used for static checking of C++ code? Basically, I'm talking about tools
that do things such as the following:

Check for unused variables
Check for dead code
Check for common language mistakes such as if (a = b)
etc...

I'm sure you get the idea (Lint kind of stuff). Any suggestions on where I
can go to get educated on the tools currently available?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Greg P.]

I have seen some this discussion alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++....not that it is
overly welcome, but it does get replies.

Look around the internet as a last resort at such projects like:
gprof (http://www.gnu.org/manual/gprof-2.9.1/html_mono/gprof.html)
Split (http://www.splint.org/)

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

Can anybody recommend a newsgroup for me to check out that discusses tools
used for static checking of C++ code? Basically, I'm talking about tools
that do things such as the following:

Check for unused variables
Check for dead code
Check for common language mistakes such as if (a = b)
etc...

I'm sure you get the idea (Lint kind of stuff). Any suggestions on where I
can go to get educated on the tools currently available?

C++ code is very difficult to parse, because it's very ambigious
at the syntactic level.

Therefore any tool that analyzes C++ code has to do essentially all
that a compiler does, except code generation.

Why don't you simply use a decent C++ compiler?

What do you want that's different from what a C++ compiler does?

C++ is not C.

 

[Peter van Merkerk]

Hello all,

Can anybody recommend a newsgroup for me to check out that discusses tools
used for static checking of C++ code? Basically, I'm talking about tools
that do things such as the following:

Check for unused variables
Check for dead code
Check for common language mistakes such as if (a = b)
etc...

I'm sure you get the idea (Lint kind of stuff). Any suggestions on where I
can go to get educated on the tools currently available?

Recently there has been a discussion going on this subject in
comp.lang.c++.moderated in the thread "Code analyzer".

HTH

 

[Greg P.]

Oops sorry, I seem to have missed that this is c.l.c++ not c.lc, please
ignore the splint reference.

| I have seen some this discussion alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++....not that it
is
| overly welcome, but it does get replies.
|
| Look around the internet as a last resort at such projects like:
| gprof (http://www.gnu.org/manual/gprof-2.9.1/html_mono/gprof.html)
| Split (http://www.splint.org/)
|
|