Splint Alternatives

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   Shellcheck

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   A simple tool for finding bugs in shell scripts.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • Norway

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Visual Studio Code
   • Vim
   • Sublime Text
   • GNU Emacs
   • Atom

   • Norway

   

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   Negative comment by Guest · Apr 3, 2025

   Shellcheck is for shell scripts, and cannot be used for C code, and splint is the opposite.

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   Cppcheck

    23 likes

   Cppcheck is an static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • PortableApps.com
   • Eclipse

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

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   Coverity Scan

    4 likes

   Coverity Scan Static Analysis allows to find and fix defects in your Java, C/C++ or C# open source project for free.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online
   • BSD

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   Flawfinder

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   Flawfinder examines C/C++ source code and reports possible security weaknesses ("flaws'') sorted by risk level. It's very useful for quickly finding and removing at least some potential security problems before a program is widely released to the public.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

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   Positive comment by Guest · Sep 22, 2017

   Is actively maintained and really fast. Works out of the box without configuration.

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   EDoC++

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   EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate detailed documentation

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Windows

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   Parasoft C/C++test

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   Parasoft’s C/C++test is the fully-integrated software testing solution for embedded safety-critical industries. Its automated software testing capabilities are also made for today’s high-velocity Agile DevOps environments.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Infer

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   Facebook Infer is a static analysis tool - if you give Infer some Objective-C, Java, or C code, it produces a list of potential bugs.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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    VisualCodeGrepper

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    VCG is an automated code security review tool that handles C/C++, Java, C#, VB and PL/SQL. It has a few features that should hopefully make it useful to anyone conducting code security reviews, particularly where time is at a premium:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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