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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 01:05:43 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel hackers Tricks & Tips
Message-ID:  <19980525010543.56365@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805242224.IAA02315@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Mon, May 25, 1998 at 08:24:28AM %2B1000
References:  <199805242224.IAA02315@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>

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On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 08:24:28AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >3. You can automatically find problems (potential bugs) in old source
> >   by running flexelint against it
> You could also try LCLint (in ports).   It's full capabilities require
> additional specification files, but it does a reasonable job on raw
> source code.

IIRC, it hasn't got good enough error suppression to be easily
useable.  I've not yet gotten around to trying to use its full
capabilities - they seem rather nice.  It seems a possibly usable
alternative if you're on a budget or have quite a bit free time to set
it up for the project; however, it still hasn't (or at least I seem to
remember it hasn't) the value-tracking capabilities of flexelint,
which make it automatically detect missing checks for return values
etc.  This is _very_ useful.

Eivind.

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