Open-Source Programming Tools

This is "copy-left software" that is distributed with, protected by, and licensed under the GNU General Public License. This software is provided "AS-IS" without any express or implied warranty nor guarantee. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software nor derivative works.

These tools should compile on most UNIX systems with the GNU toolchain.
They have been tested on Linux and FreeBSD.

emacs / XEmacs

hypersrc / pypersrc

hypersrc/pypersrc are source code browsers.

lwlint

"lwlint" (light-weight lint) is a lint tool that catches some programming mistakes in C/C++ (some of which gcc/g++ won't catch even with -Wall) such as dangling "else", incorrect "else if" series, use of octal constants, declaring pointers and non-pointers in one statement, etc. Warnings can be selectively disabled by args and suppressed by special C comments. C++ source files can be passed to lwlint but it doesn't yet check for any C++ specific lint. The source code should compile on a system with GNU tools (make/gcc/flex/bison).

A heavy-weight (C-only) lint program is splint

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MD5:
d42c04604f4bdc9f745e408a426a5803  lwlint_20091219.tar.bz2

autogenproto

autogenproto auto-generates function prototypes from C source files.

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MD5:
e71166017449c20d74d825d697e0a016  autogenproto_20050427.tar.gz

Trekkies may be amused by a comment in the source code.

makedepend replacement

I noticed that makedepend fails to recurse into all include files. That's intolerable as it can cause bad executables to be compiled. Here's a replacement written in Python. The only supported makedepend arg is -I but that should suffice.

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MD5:
1ce45fcc58278c173175276cb69f52df  makedepend_python_20050724.zip