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From: kenny@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Kenneth Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: lint++ -> really "AutoCodeReview" -- Ideas requested.
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Date: 8 Dec 89 22:05:03 GMT
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/ hpcuhc:comp.lang.c++ / rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler) /  7:41 pm  Dec  7, 1989 /
>
> We had lint in the old days to catch things like
>
>  if ( x = 0 ) then
>     something_imporant();
>
> which is almost certainly an error.

I know it's certainly an error, but what are you trying to point out?

Are you trying to say lint should do one of the following:

1. tell you a syntax error
	if ( expression ) then statement 
	
   where then is not a keyword in C.

2. tell you a logic error
	if ( something which is always false )
           thisWillNeverGetExecute();   
Are these the jobs of lint?


kenny