Splint

What is Splint?

Splint is a static analysis tool that scans C programs to identify potential security vulnerabilities and coding errors. It can be used as a more advanced alternative to traditional lint tools, providing deeper code inspection capabilities. By incorporating additional annotations into the codebase, Splint can conduct thorough checks that go beyond the scope of standard lint utilities. This comprehensive static analysis helps developers catch a wide range of issues, from memory leaks and buffer overflows to incorrect API usage and non-compliant coding practices. Splint's flexible configuration allows it to be tailored to specific project requirements, ensuring the detection of problems that are most relevant to the codebase under review. Its systematic approach to identifying risks and weaknesses empowers developers to improve code quality, security, and maintainability throughout the software development lifecycle

Highlights

• Static code analysis to detect security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes
• Capable of performing more extensive checks than traditional lint tools
• Supports additional annotations to enable stronger static analysis
• Configurable to focus on project-specific issue detection
• Helps improve overall code quality, security, and maintainability