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Revision 7 (laforge, 02/21/2016 02:27 PM) → Revision 8/12 (laforge, 02/21/2016 02:27 PM)

h1. Development tools 

 
 h2. C tools 

 h3. Formatting 

 Lindent, reformat C code to the Linux kernel (and osmocom) coding standards 

 h2. Patches 

 * @git format-patch -1@, generate a patch 
 * @checkpatch.pl@, check patches for common errors (Ignore x-signed-off-by) 
 * @make distcheck@ catches quite a few errors, run it before sending patches. 
 * @git send-email -1@ Send a patch to the mailing list (after configuration) 

 h2. Testing 

 * @make check@: run it and don't introduce regressions 

 h2. Misc 

 * pahole (dwarves), http://www.ohloh.net/p/pahole See the memory layout of structures 
 * gdb, debugging 
 * valgrind, http://valgrind.org/, dynamic analysis of memory management/threading 
 * mudflap (gcc option), check array/pointer accesses. See http://zecke.blogspot.com/2012/10/know-your-tools-mudflap.html 


 h2. Python tools 

 h3. Formatting 

 * pep8, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8 Check formatting for pep8 compliance 
 * autopep8, https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8 Reformat code to be pep8-complient 

 h3. Checking/analysis 

 * pyflakes, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes Statically find some errors 
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