Visualize compiler warnings

Question

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?

Answer 1

Other tools sucks as findbugs already extend the warning mechanism used in eclipse. Hence if you have the findbugs plugin for eclipse installed you will see both your compile errors/warnings and your findbugs warnings.

Answer 2

I suppose I'll give an answer to my own question then, to summarize what I've found so far:

• the CDash tool look pretty interesting, although not precisely what I'm looking for

• the PyPy Speed Center looks interesting, and should at least be possible to extend to show "number of warnings" as a quality measure over time

• other than that, just comparing warning output with diff from several compilers is pretty satisfying, especially since many compilers can generate "GCC-like" warning and error output for easy comparison.