Checking C Programs with Lint: C Programming Utility (Nutshell Handbooks)

Ian F. Darwin

ISBN 10: 0937175307 / ISBN 13: 9780937175309

Published by O'Reilly Media, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Checking C Programs with Lint: C Programming Utility (Nutshell Handbooks)
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937175307
• ISBN 13: 9780937175309
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.