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LINT/INSURE++ Comparison

Lint attempts to detect features of the named C program files that are likely to be bugs, to be non-portable, or to be wasteful. It also performs stricter type checking than does the C compiler. Lint runs the C preprocessor as its first phase, with the preprocessor symbol lint defined to allow certain questionable code to be altered or skipped by lint. Therefore, this symbol should be thought of as a reserved word for all code that is to be checked by lint.

Among the possible problems that are currently noted are unreachable statements, loops not entered at the top, automatic variables declared and not used, and logical expressions with constant values. Function calls are checked for inconsistencies, such as calls to functions that return values in some places and not in others, functions called with varying numbers of arguments, function calls that pass arguments of a type other than the type the function expects to receive, functions whose values are not used, and calls to functions not returning values that use the non-existent return value of the function.

However, Lint is extremely noisy - it generates many bogus warnings and it can only detect a fraction of the errors detected by Insure++.

Insure++ finds a wide variety of programming and memory access errors including:

  • Memory corruption due to reading or writing beyond the valid areas of global, local, shared, and dynamically allocated objects.
  • Operations on uninitialized, NULL, or "wild" pointers.
  • Memory leaks.
  • Errors allocating and freeing dynamic memory.
  • String manipulation errors.
  • Operations on pointers to unrelated data blocks.
  • Invalid pointer operations.
  • Incompatible variable declarations.
  • Mismatched variable types in printf and scanf argument lists.
Insure++ finds all memory reference errors. It does not use a "statistical" approach to trap memory reference errors, but rather checks each memory reference for validity when that reference is executed. Insure++ checks all types of memory references, including those to static(global), and stack, as well as dynamically allocated memory. When Insure++ finds a problem, it provides a complete diagnosis, including the name of related variables, the line of source code containing the error, a description of the error, and a stack trace.

Just as it does with memory reference errors, Insure++ finds all library interface errors.

  • Mismatched argument types or function declarations.
  • Out of range, or otherwise invalid arguments in library calls.
  • Errors returned by library calls.

Insure++ knows about every standard UNIX system call, the X Window System, Motif, and many other popular libraries. On each library call, Insure++ checks that every variable is of the correct type and is within its valid range. Insure++ is the only tool with the intelligence which assures that these libraries are called correctly, every time.

Insure++ has perfect knowledge of all data, pointer, and memory operations, because it studies the source code. So Insure++ captures EVERY memory error, for EVERY type of memory - global (static), local (stack), dynamically allocated (heap) and even shared.

Insure++, with its access to the source code, not only exposes every memory leak, but also pinpoints the exact statement which caused the leak, immediately when the leak occurs.

Insure++ has perfect knowledge of memory and variable usage, and perfect recall of all memory operations. So it captures EVERY error, no matter how many times malloc and free are called.

Insure++ has a built-in library with thousands of interfaces to common libraries, allowing full checking on parameters and return values. Using Insure++'s innovative Total Quality Software(tm) (TQS) technology, you have complete control over what checks are done, and can even perform complicated parameter checking on your own libraries and functions.

The bottom line is: INSURE++ FINDS MORE BUGS THAN ANY OTHER DEBUGGING TOOL.

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