[cfe-dev] language, standard conformance test

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Laszlo Nagy <rizsotto.mailinglist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi there,
>
> i am wondering that, is there such a tool which does language (or
> standard) conformance checking?
>
> a tool which takes the source code of a project (and a compilation
> database) and report that the source code shall be compiled at least with
> compiler which can do for example, C99 and on an OS which does support
> POSIX.1-2001. or a more detailed report which says these function calls
> (source location provided) are require this level of standard conformance,
> and those are available on these platforms. or this and this function calls
> are obsolete in standard X and use some other call instead.
>
> these kind of informations are there in the man pages, but have to check
> manually. and my endeavour in multi OS, portable C/C++ code was always with
> surprises. and a tool like this would have been useful for me in the past.
>
> i am interested that tool is exists or not? or somebody planing to
> implement such? or any opinion why this kind of tool is not useful, and
> testing on real OS will be the ultimate solution every time, and that can't
> be avoided. so, any thoughts are welcome! ;)
>
> regards,
> Laszlo
>
> _______________________________________________
>



Assume , in different operating systems , there is the same compiler , for
example , Clang 3.5.1 .

Is compiling with , for example , -sdt=C99 , in one operating system , not
sufficient for detecting incompatibilities with standard C99 ?


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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