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Checking C Programs with Lint

C Programming Utility

By Ian Darwin

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Release Date: October 1988

Pages: 81

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The lint program checker has proven time and again to be one of the best tools for finding portability problems and certain types of coding errors in C programs. This book introduces you to lint, guides you through running it on your programs, and helps you to interpret lint's output. lint verifies a program or program segments against standard libraries, checks the code for common portability errors, and tests the programming against some tried and true guidelines. linting your code is a necessary (though not sufficient) step in writing clean, portable, effective programs. Contents include:

Overview of using lint
Dealing with lint' concerns: casting and delinting
lint comments
Using lint in detail: command line options, using lint with make, rolling your own lint library
Public domain programs
Under the hood: an inside look
Future directions