Checking C Programs with Lint

By Ian F. Darwin
First Edition  October 1988 
Pages: 75
ISBN 10: 0-937175-30-7 | ISBN 13: 9780937175309

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The lint program is one of the best tools for finding portability problems and certain types of coding errors in C programs. This handbook introduces you to lint, guides you through running it on your programs, and helps you 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 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

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Media reviews "I learned one or two little tricks, and since I'm fairly expert on
lint that came as a pleasant surprise. The book is short and to the point. On the other hand, it is not very terse, and anyone who's written a C program of more than one source file should be able to read and learn from it." --Message-ID: <89Dec26.225008est.2631@sq.sq.com>

"I can say without reservation that this book is a must for the system programmer or anyone else programming in C." --Root Journal, Sept/Oct 1990

"The book is short, useful, and to the point. I recommend it for self-study to all involved with C in a UNIX environment, as it certainly goes beyond the standard documentation on lint and makes this important tool much more accessible." --Computing Reviews, August 1989

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