Free Splint Alternatives

The best free alternative to Splint is Shellcheck, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to Splint and seven of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Splint are Cppcheck, Coverity Scan, Flawfinder and EDoC++.

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  1. Shellcheck icon

    Shellcheck

     5 likes

    A simple tool for finding bugs in shell scripts.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Vim
    • Sublime Text
    • GNU Emacs
    • Atom
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    Shellcheck vs Splint Comments
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    Negative
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    Shellcheck is for shell scripts, and cannot be used for C code, and splint is the opposite.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Shellcheck is Free and Open SourceSplint is also Free and Open Source
  2. Cppcheck icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Eclipse
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  4. C

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
     
  5. Flawfinder icon

    Flawfinder

     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Flawfinder vs Splint Comments
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    Positive
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    Is actively maintained and really fast. Works out of the box without configuration.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Flawfinder is Free and Open SourceSplint is also Free and Open Source
  6. E

    EDoC++

     Like

    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
     
  7. Infer icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. VisualCodeGrepper icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
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