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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
Summary: Lint Failure du Jour
Keywords: lint, cc
Message-ID: <105@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 26 Jun 89 17:24:39 GMT
References: <328@tree.UUCP> <417@siswat.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Los Altos, CA
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Last week I spent an entire day tracking down one of those bugs you just
don't see after staring at your code too long.  It was of the form:

	if (condition);
	    action;

My lint (SunOS 4.0.1 version) did not flag the extra semicolon.

I Hate C.


-- 
Bob Weissman
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