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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?
Message-ID: <90177@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 90 00:22:11 GMT
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> 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?)

Some lint's, and some newer gcc's, do.
-- 
	Arthur David Olson   ado@alw.nih.gov   ADO is a trademark of Ampex.

Script started on Fri Jun  8 20:20:01 1990
elsie$ cat try.c
#include <stdio.h>

func()
{
	printf("name=%s\n");
}
elsie$ gcc -c -Wformat try.c
try.c: In function func:
try.c:5: warning: too few arguments for format
elsie$ exit

script done on Fri Jun  8 20:20:35 1990