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From: dmb@ns.network.com (Duane M. Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?
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Date: 1 Jun 90 14:55:01 GMT
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In article <36985@think.Think.COM> barmar@nugodot.think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>...
>There are very few things that lint warns about that a compiler *couldn't*.
                ^^^                                               ^^^^^^^^
>But it checks lots of things that many C compilers *don't*.  It is

Lint checks consistency across multiple files.  I don't know of any C
compilers that can do this.

duane.