How do I download and install lint?

Question

Does anyone know how to obtain lint for Mac, Windows, and Linux? sudo port install lint can\'t find it.

Answer 1

From the splint FAQ:

Splint supports most, but not all, of the C99 extensions to the ANSI C.

This implies that splint is alas not the same as lint. I've had personal experience with running splint on pieces of code like this:

for (int i; i < 100; i++)
    /* Run code */

As declaration of a variable inside the for loop header is not permitted until C99, like in this example, splint will complain about this. Hence, I'm still looking for a good alternative to splint for Ubuntu.

Answer 2

I've only seen lint for BSD. There's splint, however, a GPL lint rewrite, and it's available on most Linux distributions.