Checking C Programs with Lint (Nutshell Handbooks) [Paperback]

Ian F. Darwin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Nutshell Handbooks | Publication Date: October 8, 1988

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

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

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 F. Darwin has worked in the computer industry for three decades. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and is the author of Checking C Programs with Lint, Java Cookbook, and over seventy articles and courses on C and Unix. 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Revised edition (October 8, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937175307
• ISBN-13: 978-0937175309
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,636,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ian has worked in the computer field for decades, starting on mainframes(!) and moving to ever-smaller computers (his smallest devices with keyboards currently include a netbook running OpenBSD and a Motorola Milestone smartphone running Android). He's written several O'Reilly books over the years, including the long-ago "Checking C Programs with Lint" and the "Java Cookbook" which is available in at least ten languages. Ian also teaches computer courses for Learning Tree International and runs his own consultancy, RejmiNet Group Inc. He lives on a hobby farm north of Toronto with his wife, some of their children, a cat and some chickens - which explains, at long last, the animal on the cover of the Java Cookbook.