> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Goldshmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:27 PM
> To: Tal, Shachar
> Subject: Re: [OT] OSS lint-type static checker?
> 
> 
> "Tal, Shachar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I'm talking about code that I gets compiled (for production) with MS
> > compilers, on MS platforms. 
> 
> You didn't mention MS (apart from mentioning C#) in your 
> original posting.

Mea culpa.

> > Yes, gcc can run on windows, but it usually
> > isn't worth the effort to compile once for debugging, and once for
> > production.
> 
> I *really* disagree - it is well worth the effort. Besides, wat's the
> difference between running $lint and running gcc? Put
> 
> gcc <options> -c "$@" -o /dev/null
> 
> in a script called lint, and there you go. You'll need a hook to VC++,
> I suspect it is possible to create one. Of course, another p roblem
> with VC++ is that it often does not compile perfectly legal C++ code.

More often, the code that VC++ perfectly compiles is not perfect C++ (I
won't even mention ANSI compliance). I'm not sure gcc will have a good
signal-to-noise ratio when chewing MS's flavor of C++. Past experience have
shown otherwise.

> 
> -- 
> Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shachar Tal
Verint Systems


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