Free tools to check compliance with MISRA C?

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Are there any open-source or free tools out there, that check the MISRA C compliance?

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '18 at 22:37

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Cppcheck (free and open source) has an official addon allowing to check MISRA-C 2012 rules.

The way to do so:

cppcheck --dump file.c
python misra.py file.c.dump

You can simply find misra.py in your Cppcheck installation or here: https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/blob/master/addons/misra.py

answered Mar 22 '18 at 22:37

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Unfortunately, Cppcheck needs MISRA rules for this addon to work. These rules are not free and are not provided with Cppcheck. – TonioGA Dec 06 '19 at 06:53
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Cppcheck does not need MISRA rules for this addon to work: if MISRA rules are providen users get full rules' message when an issue is found, otherwise users get only MISRA rules' id. – begarco Dec 07 '19 at 23:04

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '11 at 17:24

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Relatively speaking, PC-Lint is virtually free when compared to full-blown static analysis tools with MISRA compliance checks. Furthermore, I have found that PC-Lint does a better job of reporting than those expensive (i.e. >$20,000) tools.

answered Feb 18 '11 at 17:24

Throwback1986

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PC-Lint supports MISRA C and C++ compliance checking: http://www.gimpel.com/html/misra.htm – Throwback1986 Jun 04 '15 at 14:46
my bad. Comment deleted (and +1 to you) – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jun 04 '15 at 14:52
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Detail: "PC-Lint is virtually free" --> Found quote: "PC-lint - One Workstation License (non-floating) 389.00" – chux - Reinstate Monica Mar 25 '20 at 16:34

Free tools to check compliance with MISRA C?

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