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From: simpson@trwarcadia.uucp (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Question about Ada expressions
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Date: 15 Oct 89 20:35:08 GMT
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In article <8910122337.AA06188@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>I had a friend call yesterday after spending five hours trying to figure out
>why some C code didn't work based on this expression:
>
>	if (variable & MASK == VALUE)

Your buddy didn't use lint.  It would have caught this.
	Scott Simpson
	TRW Space and Defense Sector
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