Visualize compiler warnings

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Published on 2009-07-16T12:38:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 22:04 UTC
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I'm looking for a way to visualize compiler warnings and remarks, by annotating or otherwise showing which lines cause a report.

This is much like a modern IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse already does, but I'd like to take output from several compilers (and other static code analysis tools) at once, and create one single annotation in order to get a better overview.

The rationale is that we've seen some problems go completely undetected by, say, Visual Studio 2005, but accurately detected with a proprietary ARM compiler, and vice versa. Cross-referencing warnings could potentially locate problems better, but doing so completely manually is infeasible.

Have you heard of such a tool? Could an open-source IDE like Eclipse be extended to use several compilers at once, or has it already been done?

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