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From: kyleb@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM (Kyle Bernard)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Automated tools for verifying C style compliance?
Message-ID: <4990@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:52:55 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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I've recently read over the C style guidelines from giza.cis.ohio-state.edu
(128.146.8.61) and it seems their usefulness is very limited due to the lack
of automated compliance verficiation tools.  It's fine to adopt a coding
standard (that's exactly what we're looking into) but without automated tools
for verifying compliance it becomes unreasonable to enforce the standard.
While I agree that code reading has numerous benefits and should be used
extensively, I don't think that reading for style compliance is very
profitable.

Are there any such tools available publically?  We have one tool in-house
but it is outdated and inflexible.  What tools are people using to verify
compliance?

Kyle.


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