Static analysis software for Fortran

Friday, June 26, 2009

I started with the list of Fortran tools on fortran.com:
There are also many projects referenced that are now defunct as far as I can tell:I also came across a 1999 technical report from Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (now Science and Technology Facilities Council) that summarises the tools available then and lists their static analysis features. Much of this is still useful.

Note: these are all separate analysis tools. I didn't look at the analysis that the various Fortran compilers can do. Polyhedron Software has a very detailed looking comparison chart.

tl;dr: Forcheck, Cleanscape FortranLint.

6 comments:

George said...

Why?

jon said...

Why not?

George said...

Why Fortran?

jon said...

Why not Fortran? :-P

Okay, seriously: most (all?) of the climate models used in the IPCC reports are written primarily in Fortran.

Carolyn said...

Forcheck and Fortran lint look like great tools.

jon said...

@carolyn I'd say. I've asked for a trial version so that we can try them out.

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