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There are many C programmers who have learned to cope with C's quirks. However, some programmers may wish to use tools that have been created to help them overcome such problems.
Automated [[source code]] checking and auditing are beneficial in any language, and for C many such tools exist, such as [[lint programming tool|Lint]]. A common practice is to use Lint to detect questionable code when a program is first written. Once a program passes Lint, it is then compiled using the C compiler.
There are also compilers, libraries and [[operating system]] level mechanisms for performing array bounds checking, [[buffer overflow]] detection, and [[garbage collection (computer science)|automatic garbage collection]], that are not a standard part of C.
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