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Page Page Contents Page About this document Intended audience Document conventions and symbols Related information HP encourages your comments 1 Introduction 1.1Cadvise user interface 1.2 Features 1.2.1Advanced static code analysis 1.2.2 Defect detection 1.2.3 Security vulnerability checks 1.2.4 Porting and migration 1.2.5 Detection of pre-definedor user-definedcoding guideline violation 1.2.7 Supported compilers 2 Using Cadvise 2.1Getting started 2.2 Steps in using cadvise 2.3 Invoking Cadvise 2.4 Using Cadvise as a wrapper around Compiler or Linker 2.5 Integrating Cadvise with the makefiles and build process 2.6 Enabling different categories of diagnostic messages 2.7 Generating code complexity metrics Page Page Page 2.8 Detecting violation of pre-definedor user-definedcoding guidelines Page 3 Using the Program Database (PDB) 3.1 PDB options table 3.2 Specifying the PDB location 3.3 Deleting PDB 3.4 Disabling locks in PDB operations 3.5 Removing object file information from the PDB 3.6 Creating a PDB snapshot at a specified location 3.7 Displaying PDB version 4 Using cross-fileanalysis Page Page 5 Configuring diagnostic messages 5.1 Diagnostic configuration options table 5.2 Suppressing warnings selectively 5.3 Enabling warnings selectively 5.4 Interpreting selective warnings as errors 5.5 Disabling warnings in a macro 5.6 Managing warnings in a source file 6 Generating reports 6.1Report generation options table 6.2 Generating summary reports 6.3 Generating file summary report 6.4 Generating detailed report 6.5 Generating HTML report 6.6 Generating XML report 6.7 Printing diagnostics with specific diagnostic numbers 6.8 Generating reports based on severity 6.9 Suppressing diagnostics for specific files 6.10Reporting diagnostics from specific files 6.11 Reporting program complexity metrics 6.12 Generating report for a module 6.13Suppressing report header 6.14 Modifying the default severity level of a diagnostic 6.15 Generating PDB comparison report 6.15.1 Generating summary diff report 6.15.2 Generating detailed diff report Page Page 6.16 Report options file 6.17 Generate report for migration related warnings 6.18Generating consolidated report from multiple PDBs 6.19 Generating PDB diffs with multiple PDBs 6.20 Recommended process for analyzing the diagnostic messages 6.21 Report options interoperability Page 7 Miscellaneous driver options Page Page 8 Categories of diagnostics with examples 8.1 Categories of diagnostics table 8.2Detecting generic programming errors Page Page Page Page Page 8.3 Detecting 32-bitto 64-bitmigraton issues 8.4 Detecting endianness migration issues 8.5 Detecting potential security vulnerabilities 8.6Detecting multi-threadedprogramming issues 8.7 Detecting potential performance improvement opportunities Page 9 Fixing the warnings by source change 10 Incompatibilities on PA-RISCbased systems Index