On the KLOC side of things - projecting a nearly 250,000-500,000 reported error rate the first time you run your entire codebase through pc-lint is sobering. Especially when that is after suppressing large swaths of error messages to begin with. Still - that cleanup will be worth doing
That is why I have been making all of my developers lint clean at every phase end. I get a lot of grumbling but each phase adds around 10,000 warnings per developer which takes them a week or so to clean. Better a week at a time then a month at the end of the project. It is the only thing that is currently keeping things a float since if we ran it the first time now it would be simply easier to amend our project plan to say we are exempt from the company wide coding practice.
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That is why I have been making all of my developers lint clean at every phase end. I get a lot of grumbling but each phase adds around 10,000 warnings per developer which takes them a week or so to clean. Better a week at a time then a month at the end of the project. It is the only thing that is currently keeping things a float since if we ran it the first time now it would be simply easier to amend our project plan to say we are exempt from the company wide coding practice.