tools to analyze the code at compile time

[junky_fellow@yahoo.co.in]

guys,

Are you aware of any good tool that analyze the source code
statically (ie at compile time and not at run time) ? This tool
should be able to find out very obvious coding errors like memory
leaks, derefencing a NULL pointer, memory corruption etc. Has anyone
used such a tool ? Are these tools really useful in code analysis ?

thanks for any suggestions ........

[santosh]

Re: tools to analyze the code at compile time

junky_fellow@ya hoo.co.in wrote:

guys,
>
Are you aware of any good tool that analyze the source code
statically (ie at compile time and not at run time) ? This tool
should be able to find out very obvious coding errors like memory
leaks, derefencing a NULL pointer, memory corruption etc. Has anyone
used such a tool ? Are these tools really useful in code analysis ?
>
thanks for any suggestions ........

Various lint programs (eg: splint, PCLint), Purify, Valgrind etc.