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From: boyd@ingr.com (Boyd Nation)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: 2 lint questions
Message-ID: <5967@ingr.com>
Date: 27 Jul 89 18:34:03 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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I have two questions bout lint:

1)  How does one prevent lint from issuing a warning message about possible
pointer alignment problems given the following line of code:

	x = (blivet *)malloc(sizeof(blivet));

given that everything is declared and defined correctly?


2)  Is there any way to get lint to detect a closed loop of code which can
never be called?  For example:

	void func1()
	{
	    if (some_condition)
		func2();
	    some_action();
	}

	void func2()
	{
	    some_other_action();
	    func1();
	}

where there are no other calls to func1 or func2.

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