April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
9h 58m
English
To run CPAcheck, we need to install the Java runtime. This is available in the Ubuntu repository, and we use apt-get to install it.
The next step is to download CPAcheck itself. We use the wget tool to download the archive file and feed it to tar utility immediately to extract it. When completed, the tool can be found in the CPAchecker-1.9-unix directory.
We use one of the pre-packaged example files to check how the tool works:
./scripts/cpa.sh -default doc/examples/example.c
It generates the following output:

We can see, the tool has not discovered any issues with this file. There is no similar file that contains bugs in the ...