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From: walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Unix/386 lint -- how good?
Message-ID: <641@mecky.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 00:50:59 GMT
References: <2662C59D.3C5A@tct.uucp>
Reply-To: walter@mecky.UUCP (Walter Mecky)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Buettelborn/W-Germany
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In article <2662C59D.3C5A@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
+ I am currrently a user of SCO Xenix/386.  However, I expect that I
+ will soon be moving to SCO Unix or perhaps another brand of Unix/386.
+ 
+ The C safety-check program "lint" that is part of the Xenix/386
+ development system is, well, poor.  It gets confused about structure
+ definitions, it doesn't understand function prototypes (!), etc.
+ []
+ So, my question: How good is the lint provided with modern versions of
+ Unix/386?  Specifically, can it deal with prototypes?  Please send
+ E-Mail or post a followup article, as you feel appropriate.

If you mean SCO UNIX when you say Unix/386, you can stay to XENIX:
lint seems to be the same as in XENIX: no prototype (==> syntax error),
confused about structure adresses too.
-- 
Walter Mecky