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From: rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: lint++ -> really "AutoCodeReview" -- Ideas requested.
Message-ID: <700@acrux.mdavcr.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 21:33:38 GMT
References: <695@acrux.mdavcr.UUCP> <590001@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler)
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, Richmond, B.C., Canada
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In article <590001@hpcuhc.HP.COM> kenny@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Kenneth Lee) writes:
>/ 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?
>

Yes -- I made a typing error -- I typed what I say, rather than what C++
accepts. Catching this error is the compilers job.  The possible error 
of the assignment rather than a comparison would be a lint tool's job.

What I want from you (dear net reader), is hueristic rules about situations
in C++ which the compiler can not or will not warn you about.


		     
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