Cppcheck

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Tool and Usage

Project details

Year of inception
License
GPLv3
Programming language
C++
Author
Daniel Marjamäki
Latest release
2.16.0
Latest release date

Project health

93
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Usage and audience

Cppcheck is commonly used for code analysis. Target users for this tool are developers.

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + Project is mature (10+ years)
  • + The source code of this software is available

Author and Maintainers

Cppcheck is under development by Daniel Marjamäki.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Cppcheck is known to work on Linux and Microsoft Windows.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a code security testing tool and static code analyzer.