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From: hacker@isadora.ikp.liu.se (Goran Larsson [Hacker of Hackefors])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
Keywords: lint, cc
Message-ID: <411@isadora.ikp.liu.se>
Date: 28 Jun 89 08:32:33 GMT
References: <328@tree.UUCP> <417@siswat.UUCP> <105@borabora.omni.com>
Organization: Hackers Home, Hackefors, Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <105@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
>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;

It's your own fault -- you should have written it as
	if ( condition ) {
		action;
	}
to reduce the risk of errors!

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

It isn't supposed to find this "error" as it is legal C.

>I Hate C.

I Love C

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