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- From: nrd1rls@nrd.ups.com (Richard Siddall Contractor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Ant freeware Lint for C++
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:33:29 GMT
- Organization: United Parcel Service Research & Development
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- Arun Vadlamani (vadla@aol.com) wrote:
- : I need a program like Lint for C++ and was wondering if there were any
- : such Freeware programs for the CP (Windows).
-
- My experience with free or bundled lints is that they are worthless,
- as the documentation is non-existent.
-
- Gimpel Software's PC-Lint (and FlexeLint UNIX version) is worth the
- money (a co-worker once wasted an afternoon chasing a bug that PC-Lint
- flagged on the first run). It comes with documentation for the
- approximately 600 things it can flag. Just reading the documentation
- can help you improve your use of the language by pointing out which
- constructs are troublesome.
-
- I hope this helps.
-
- Richard Siddall.
-