splint

Anybody here use splint?

Sometimes....

what is it.. I have a feeling its some kind of debugging tool..

splint is a anal retentive syntax checker for C.

An example of what it might yell about:

Code:

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printf("%d\n", x);

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It would yell because printf() returns a value so it wants you to do:

Code:

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(void)printf("%d\n", x);

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I use it when I want to really check my code for any problems.

Note: It checks for things like security problems and such in the code also.

I was just curious about it - I have heard that using the -Wall option (on gcc of course) is a rough equivalent to the checking lint will do - the guys that do splint figure that you can do a little better with splint than lint - looks kind of like what Thantos said - really anal on syntax. It seems that for normal programming stuff its a little overkill though?