splint (Re: Adding Flawfinder to Patchwatcher)

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On So, 2008-09-07 at 18:10 +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > Other people may be able to suggest more good tools.
>
> AFAIK "splint" is one of the most popular OSS static analysis tools, but I've
> never really used it.  Has anyone here used it?  On the flawfinder homepage, it
> says that splint does deeper analysis than flawfinder.  It says it "...works
> somewhat like lint,

Use grep / read the source:
  dnl Check for lint
  AC_CHECK_PROGS(LINT, lclint lint)
...

But I think, thats unused for years...
(and it does not work for splint)