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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?
Message-ID: <369@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 14:50:34 GMT
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In article <caNG2OS00as90XZ11a@andrew.cmu.edu>, ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam Stoller) writes:
 
> You may not care about the return value - but does your compiler take
> the time to warn you that you didn't supply a needed argument to the
> printf() call??
> 
> (does lint warn about this?)

Gimpel {PC,Flexe}-Lint checks printf/scanf strings.
printf("a[%d] = %d\n", a[i]) will get a warning.

When we checked our 70,000 line project (at a former company), we found
five or six problems like this, almost exclusively in fatal error
reporting code.
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