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		"Gobo Eiffel Lint"

	tool: "Gobo Eiffel Lint"
	copyright: "Copyright (c) 2006, Eric Bezault and others"
	license: "MIT License"
	date: "$Date: 2007-01-26 10:55:25 -0800 (Fri, 26 Jan 2007) $"
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<chapter xmlns="http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/documentation" id="gelint/index">
<chapterinfo>
	<copyright>
		<year>2006</year>
		<holder>Eric Bezault</holder>
	</copyright>
	<author>
		<firstname>Eric</firstname><surname>Bezault</surname>
	</author>
	<email>ericb@gobosoft.com</email>
	<date>5 March 2006</date>
</chapterinfo>

<title>Gobo Eiffel Lint</title>

<para>
<projectname>Gobo Eiffel Lint</projectname>, or <projectname>gelint</projectname>
for short, is a companion tool of <link linkend="../gec/index">
<projectname>gec</projectname></link>. It's a <ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_programming_tool">lint-like</ulink> tool
for Eiffel. In addition to reporting errors found by compilers, it also goes
further and tries to report suspicious language usage such as code that may lead
to CAT-calls at run-time by performing system-level static analysis of the code.
Contrary to some Eiffel compilers, <projectname>gelint</projectname> will report
as many errors as possible in one go, both in live and dead Eiffel code.
</para>

<para>
This documentation of <projectname>gelint</projectname> is structured as follows:

<blockquote>
<variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<link linkend="usage">Using <projectname>gelint</projectname></link>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			Command-line options, Ace files.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<link linkend="technology">Code Analysis Technology</link>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			Code analysis techniques used in <projectname>gelint</projectname>.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<link linkend="limitations">Limitations</link>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			Limitations, bugs and other deficiencies.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<link linkend="see_also">See Also</link>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			Bibliographical references, related resources and
			acknowledgments.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
		<term>
			<ulink url="http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/download.html">Downloading
			Instructions</ulink>
		</term>
		<listitem><para>
			License agreement and downloading instructions.
		</para></listitem>
	</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</blockquote>

</para>

</chapter>
