Cppcheck

Analysis tool for C/C++ code. It detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally fail to detect. The goal is no false positives. It is a versatile tool that can check non-standard code.

First released2007
Developed byDaniel Marjamäki
Latest stable versionV2
Open-sourceNot defined

Interesting facts

Cppcheck is not designed to detect syntax errors in the source code. Instead it is designed to detect programming errors in the code thus making it defer from compilers which do more checks on syntax errors.

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