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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
Keywords: lint, cc
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Date: 30 Jun 89 19:22:33 GMT
References: <1778@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
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Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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In-reply-to: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)

In article <1778@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, arrom@aplcen (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>
> if (f1(a)) /* do nothing */ ;
> else if (f2(a)) {
> 	/* some code */
> } else if (f3(a)) {
> 	/* some code */
> } else if (f4(a)) {
> 	/* some code */
> }

We weren't talking about `if(<condition>); else;'; obviously, that usage is
intentional.

					--Scott

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