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Reputation: 21

Suppressing messages from the PC Lint Global Wrap up?

I am already setting the 3rd party code files as libraries in my project, but I am still getting messages from those files (libraries) in the Global Wrap-up in the PC Lint output file. Is there a way to suppress the messages from the libraries in the global wrap-up? I am using PC Lint v9.00

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1222

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 887

PC-Lint parses source files tagged as "library" the same way like normal source files but applies a different warning threshold. The option -w controls the warning threshold for normal files while -wlib controls the warning threshold for libraries. A typical setup would use -w3 for own code and -wlib(1) for library code.

With -wlib(1) PC-Lint still reports various major errors regarding library code, which is a good idea because these messages are often related to configuration errors of the PC-Lint project and not the library code itself. Still it is quite common for 3rd party code to contain code that invokes PC-Lint warnings even at -wlib(1). In this case there are several solutions possible:

  • Turn off all warnings in Library code with -wlib(0). This might hide errors related to the project setup though.

  • Turn off the remaining library-related messages by using the option -elib(<x>) for each error code. In contrast to -e<x> using -elib<x> disables the error message for the library code only.

I would like to recommend the second solution unless you have to cope with a really high number of messages.

Upvotes: 1

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