Re: Upgrading to VS2008 Standard worth my time?

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NM- [Wed, 14 May 2008 12:10:46 -0500]:
foo(v);
printf("v = %d", v);

Imagine the complaints if the compiler did
spend the time looking for all such cases.
And what of (even more) false positives?
I have to change perfectly valid code
already to appease the stupid compiler.

Static code analysis like Coverity can detect this now.

At what cost (no prices I can find on site)?
And if you have that, why not use it?

Dynamic runtime checks like Boundschecker

At what cost (looks to be on the other side
of a grand)? (And if you have that...)

but I have little faith in MS.

Yeah, but what else are you going to use?
VS-Std is a few hundred bucks. Boundschecker
(the package) is closer to $1500. Coverity is
probably -- well, here's a google bite:

May 15, 2007 ... With a price tag of around
US$12000 a year, Coverity is hoping to [Java]

and this one

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/26/73919_05FEcode_3.html

puts it in the $50,000/year price backet.

Still, neither Boundschecker nor Coverity can
compile a single line of anything.
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