Re: Does splint work for anyone?

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On 2/14/24 13:32, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 at 17:17, Ian Laurie <nixuser@xxxxxxxx
> <mailto:nixuser@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/10/24 05:06, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>     >
>     > I was trying out the splint program on some code and found that it
>     > doesn't seem to work on any recent release due to changes in various
>     > header files
>     I tried using splint many years ago in connection with embedded
>     programming, and even though the GCC based embedded compiler I was using
>     was several major version numbers behind what was natively in Fedora, I
>     found splint to be hopelessly behind the times and utterly unusable.  I
>     don't know why it is even packaged in Fedora.
> 
>     I wish I had the skills necessary to bring it up to date but I don't.
> 
> 
> Me too. I saw it is FTBFS in F40 and added my data
> to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261709
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261709>

I got it building and posted a PR:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/splint/pull-request/1

The upstream project went dormant in 2010, but there are some other
semi-active forks.  I don't think that really matters.  The program
itself could be useful for research and just as another tool in the
toolbox for development.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT
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