HP UX Web Development Tools manual Contents

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About this document......................................................................................		5
Intended audience....................................................................................................................		5
Document conventions and symbols............................................................................................		5
Related information...................................................................................................................		5
HP encourages your comments...................................................................................................		6
1 Introduction...............................................................................................		7
1.1 Cadvise user interface..........................................................................................................		7
1.2 Features.............................................................................................................................		7
1.2.1 Advanced static code analysis.......................................................................................		8
1.2.2 Defect detection..........................................................................................................		8
1.2.3 Security vulnerability checks..........................................................................................		8
1.2.4 Porting and migration...................................................................................................		8
1.2.5 Detection of pre-defined or user-defined coding guideline violation.....................................		8
1.2.6 Easy to integrate and use..............................................................................................		8
1.2.7 Supported compilers....................................................................................................		9
2 Using Cadvise.........................................................................................		10
2.1 Getting started..................................................................................................................		10
2.1.1 Supported platforms....................................................................................................		10
2.1.2 Installing Cadvise.......................................................................................................		10
2.2	Steps in using cadvise.......................................................................................................	10
2.3 Invoking Cadvise..............................................................................................................		11
2.4	Using Cadvise as a wrapper around Compiler or Linker.........................................................	12
2.5 Integrating Cadvise with the makefiles and build process.......................................................		12
2.6	Enabling different categories of diagnostic messages.............................................................	13
2.7	Generating code complexity metrics....................................................................................	13
2.8	Detecting violation of pre-defined or user-defined coding guidelines........................................	17
3 Using the Program Database (PDB).............................................................		19
3.1 PDB options table..............................................................................................................		20
3.2	Specifying the PDB location...............................................................................................	20
3.3	Deleting PDB....................................................................................................................	20
3.4	Disabling locks in PDB operations.......................................................................................	20
3.5 Removing object file information from the PDB......................................................................		20
3.6	Creating a PDB snapshot at a specified location...................................................................	21
3.7	Displaying PDB version......................................................................................................	21
4 Using cross-file analysis.............................................................................		22
5 Configuring diagnostic messages...............................................................		25
5.1 Diagnostic configuration options table..................................................................................		25
5.2	Suppressing warnings selectively.........................................................................................	25
5.3	Enabling warnings selectively.............................................................................................	25
5.4	Interpreting selective warnings as errors...............................................................................	26
5.5	Disabling warnings in a macro...........................................................................................	26
5.6	Managing warnings in a source file....................................................................................	26
6 Generating reports...................................................................................		27
6.1 Report generation options table...........................................................................................		27
6.2 Generating summary reports..............................................................................................		28
6.3	Generating file summary report..........................................................................................	28
6.4	Generating detailed report................................................................................................	28
6.5	Generating HTML report....................................................................................................	29

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