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Static Code Analysis Tools?

Posted by Cliff on from the something-else-for-the-tool-box dept.

rewt66 asks: "We are looking for a good static analysis tool for a fairly large (half a million lines) C/C++ project. What tools do you recommend? What do you recommend avoiding? What experience (good or bad) have you had with such tools?"

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  1. Understand for C++ by jvaigl · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm working on a project that's evolved over several years and there's been high turnover among the developers. We use a product called Understand for C++. It has a lot of great reverse engineering, metric generation, and source browsing features that make it pretty useful.

    From their marketing blurb...

    Understand, our flagship product, helps thousands of companies maintain impossibly large or complex amounts of source code. It parses source code for reverse engineering, automatic documentation, and calculating code metrics. We have versions for Ada 83, Ada 95, FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, FORTRAN 95, Jovial, K&R C, ANSI C and C++, Delphi, and Java. Multi-million SLOC projects are common with our users.