Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Online
- Visual Studio Code
- Vim
- Sublime Text
- GNU Emacs
- Atom

PC-lint Plus is described as 'The premier static analysis tool for C and C++' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to PC-lint Plus for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Xcode and PortableApps.com apps. The best PC-lint Plus alternative is Shellcheck, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PC-lint Plus are Cppcheck, Clang Static Analyzer, VisualCodeGrepper and Parasoft C/C++test.

Cppcheck is an static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect.

The Clang Static Analyzer is a source code analysis tool that finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs.


VCG is an automated code security review tool that handles C/C++, Java, C#, VB and PL/SQL. It has a few features that should hopefully make it useful to anyone conducting code security reviews, particularly where time is at a premium:

Parasoft’s C/C++test is the fully-integrated software testing solution for embedded safety-critical industries. Its automated software testing capabilities are also made for today’s high-velocity Agile DevOps environments.