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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?
Summary: lint is still useful
Message-ID: <115@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 31 May 90 03:16:30 GMT
References: <6328.265D8157@puddle.fidonet.org>,<1754@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <00937758.16FBE220@rigel.efd.lth.se>
Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <00937758.16FBE220@rigel.efd.lth.se>, e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se writes:
>  I don't see what lint discovers that a C-compiler with prototypes can't
> discover, except wrong external declarations like: hello[100], char *hello.

Lint does more than just type checking. It checks for possible logic errors
too. A frequent life saver is the way it warns me when it finds:

		if (x = 1)
		{
		...
		}
Other checks include unreachable code etc which may indicate coding errors.
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Anthony Shipman                               ACSnet: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au
Computer Power Group
9th Flr, 616 St. Kilda Rd.,
St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
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