Source code static analysis tool recommendations

On 02/10/18 04:55, Clifford Heath wrote:
> On 09/02/18 19:17, David Brown wrote:
>> On 08/02/18 18:58, Stefan Reuther wrote:
>>> Am 07.02.2018 um 20:54 schrieb David Brown:
>>>>> But having a C API (i.e. no inline functions),
>>>> C has had inline functions for two decades.
>>> Windows has existed for two-and-a-half...
>>
>> Yes, but the world has moved on since then, and the only reason MS did
>> not gradually supersede the messiest parts of WinAPI with better
>> versions from C99 (uint32_t instead of DWORD, inline instead of macros,
>> etc.) is that they did not make a C99 compiler.
> 
> Or any compiler, in fact. There were three C compilers for
> 8086 at the time they bought one. The only two that were
> any good told Microsoft to bugger off, so MS bought the
> worst one available and proceeded to abuse it mercilessly,
> thereby holding back the industry for decades and producing
> mountains of unreliable rubbish that they foisted on their
> unwilling victims.
> 
> Clifford Heath

MSC 5.x was fairly horrible, but 6.00ax was pretty good, I thought.  I 
used both the DOS and OS/2 versions pretty extensively BITD.

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