What's New in PC-lint Plus 2025

Expanded Standards Coverage, Full Suppression Traceability, and a New Visual Interface

Each update to PC-lint Plus 2025 builds on standards coverage, suppression traceability, and results review. Pick a release to see the details.

Highlights

Over 97% MISRA C++:2023 Coverage - Plus support for the new Technical Corrigenda
New Certifications - Now certified for IEC 62304 (Medical Software) and EN 50716 (Railway) which join certifications for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508

Tagged suppressions with an audit trail - Tags carry through to Diagnostic Accounting
Trace exceptions back to their origin - Find unhandled C++ exceptions, with a report of where each one starts.

Latest Release - PC-lint Plus 2025 SP2

10-15-2026

Follow every exception back to where it was thrown

When a C++ exception is thrown, control flow unwinds until something handles it. PC-lint Plus now tracks that path backwards through your program and flags the places where it goes wrong.

Catch unhandled exceptions in entry point functions and in functions marked noexcept
Flag explicit exceptions swallowed by a catch-all handler
Get a Graphviz report for each finding, showing the file and line where the exception originates
Choose which function signatures count as able to throw, to match your coding rules

Follow every exception back to where it was thrown — PC-lint Plus Exception Propagation

MISRA C++:2023, now over 97%

PC-lint Plus supports over 97% of the MISRA C++:2023 guidelines and the recently released Technical Corrigenda (TC1).

See coverage details in the manual

More control over Diagnostic Accounting

Configure the output to exclude suppressed messages, include only a specified subset of messages, or both. This supports a wider range of use cases.

Read about Diagnostic Accounting

Bug fixes, includes fewer false positives

Fixes 13 bugs, mostly false-positive messages. It also fixes issues with Halstead and function call metrics, switch fall-through suppression, and template base classes.

View the revision history

Earlier Releases

Everything that came before SP2 in the 2025 version.

PC-lint Plus 2025 SP1

March 31, 2026

MISRA C++:2023 coverage passes 90%, suppressions gain tags, and call graphs export to DOT.

MISRA C++:2023: over 90% of guidelines supported. Coverage details
Tagged suppressions: user-defined tags appear in Diagnostic Accounting output and link each suppression to its documented deviation.
Call graph export: project-level function call graphs written in DOT Language for Graphviz and compatible tools.
New IDE integrations: Sublime Text and Code Composer Studio.