Is there a free substitute for Flexilint?

[John (Eljay) Love-Jensen]

Hi Christian,

> So your basic point is use "-Wall", and filter as needed?

Yep.  Hopefully the filter part won't be necessary.

The warning flags I use:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-01/msg00187.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2006-09/msg00118.html

> If so, do you have any sense of how big the gap is between that approach and what FlexiLint does for me? (I realize this is a hard thing to quantify.)

Sorry, I'm not sure how big the gap is.  I haven't used Gimpel's software for a long while now (almost two decades ago).

Sincerely,
--Eljay