Re: "php -l" - does it find *anything*?
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:59:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: "php -l" - does it find *anything*? | ||
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Gary . wrote:
> Yeah. There are static checkers out there, even some FOSS ones. I
> guess I'm just a bit frustrated that (as you say) the man page says
> that "-l" checks syntax but doesn't really detail what kind of things
> that covers.
It really is _only_ the syntax. Same goes for e.g. the C lint -
int main()
{
char *p;
p=0;
*p=0;
}
this is 100% syntactically correct, but will core dump if you run it.
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Per Jessen, Zürich (24.2°C)