what are the open source tools available to check C code?
January 28th, 2010 | 
Author: I have bulk of C code and I am currently told to audit the code.
For example:
1. check the un initialized variables
2. called ‘malloc’ but not called ‘free’ to free that memory space
3. security vulnerabilities
4. common programming mistakes etc….
I might not listed all possible things here,
but helper please keep similar points that will help to audit the C code
and suggest me good open source tool.
Also they can suggest me some links describing what are to be checked while auditing the code.
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Tags: c code, free memory, initialized variables, malloc, memory space, open source tool, open source tools, programming mistakes, security vulnerabilities, source code
My husband is a software quality test engineer, so I asked him. He says to go the Cygwin.org, download "Setup" (which will then let you download other things) and get the Lint or C-Lint package. He says there’s tons of useful stuff at that site, it’s free, so download whatever you need.