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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
Summary: while != if
Keywords: lint, cc
Message-ID: <115@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 29 Jun 89 17:20:53 GMT
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In article <27729@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Berry Kercheval) writes:
> In article <441a30e5.8f55@fiero.engin.umich.edu>, ejd@caen (Edward J Driscoll) writes:
> >It [[ if(x==5); ]]is legal, but I would hope for a warning from such an 
> > obvious semantic error.  
> 
> Goodness, save me from useless warnings for perfectly good C
> constructs.  This is NOT an "obvious" semantic error.  Have you never
> done something like this?
> 
> 	/* skip to end of word */
> 	while(!isspace(*cp++));

Sorry, but "while" is quite different from "if".

I'm not talking about
	random_keyword (expression);

I'm talking about
	if (expression);
which, while legal, *never* makes sense semantically, as it is always
equivalent to
	expression;

OK?

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