Checking C Programs with Lint: C Programming Utility (Nutshell Handbooks)
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ISBN: 0937175307 / Publisher: O'Reilly Media, October 1988
The lint program checker has proven time and time again to be one of the best tools for finding portability problems and certain types of coding errors in C programs. Lint verifies a program or program segments against standard libaries, checks the code for common portability errors, and tests the programming against some tried and true guidelines. This book introduces readers to lint and guides them through running it on their programs, and helps them interpret lint's output.
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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 interpretlint'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 lintDealing with lint' concerns: casting and delintinglint commentsUsing lint in detail: command line options, using lint with make, rolling your own lint libraryPublic domain programsUnder the hood: an inside lookFuture directions
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