Checking C Programs with lint
C Programming Utility
Will be published approx. on 8. November 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-0-937175-30-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 som tried and true guidelines. linting your code is a necessary (though not sufficient) step in writing clean, portable, effective programs.
More details
Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-937175-30-9 (9780937175309)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ian Darwin has worked in the computer industry for three decades, with Unix since 1980, with Java since 1995, and with OpenBSD since 1998. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and is the author of Java Cookbook, as well as over seventy articles and several courses (both university and commercial) on C and Unix over the years. In addition to programming and consulting, Ian teaches Unix, C and Java for Learning Tree International, one of the world's largest technical training companies.
Content
Preface Scope of This Handbook Conventions Used in This Handbook Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Using lint Chapter 3 Dealing with lint's Concerns Casting: Tell the Compiler You Know Better /*LINT COMMENTS*/-Tell lint You Don't Care /*NOTREACHED*/ /*ARGSUSED*/ and /*VARARGS*/ /*LINTLIBRARY*/ /*NOSTRICT*/ and /*CANTHAPPEN*/ Specific Problems: The Delinting Handbook Chapter 4 Using lint in Detail Command Line Options Using lint with make Roll Your Own lint Library Chapter 5 Limits to lint printfck clash and shortc cchk check Chapter 6 Under the Hood Chapter 7 An Evaluation of lint Chapter 8 Future Directions Appendix A The Ten Commandments for C Programmers Appendix B A Very Brief History of UNIX Research USG Berkeley Appendix C Supplemental Programs Bibliography Index