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Timeline for Embedded System LINT use

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Mar 11, 2012 at 17:44 comment added Jay Atkinson How true. That big code base is quite flawed, and we're trying to clean the Coverity errors in it
Nov 3, 2010 at 4:30 comment added Tim Williscroft If your new source code base is spitting out a lot of "false positives" it's sadly, usually broken.
Oct 7, 2010 at 19:54 vote accept Kortuk
Jun 3, 2010 at 17:06 comment added Jay Atkinson Sorry, Gimpel's PC-LINT. What's nice is that they at least help you tame the output some with some predefined rule sets based on the compiler and editor you use. They're available for download at their site: gimpel.com
Jun 3, 2010 at 14:57 comment added Kortuk Do you know what company made it, there are many different Lint programs out there. I was told it is named lint because of the little pieces of lint it finds that the compiler misses.
Jun 3, 2010 at 4:52 comment added Jay Atkinson At the time it was version 8.0.
Jun 2, 2010 at 19:30 comment added Kortuk I read a I have to expect to spend up front time to get it to stop throwing false positives. What lint had you chosen to use at the time?
Jun 2, 2010 at 18:18 history answered Jay Atkinson CC BY-SA 2.5