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From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.lang.modula2
Subject: wanted `lint-like' program for Modula2
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Date: 8 Jun 90 14:04:40 GMT
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Even though Modula2 has more constraints than C there are still many
mistakes/problems it would be useful to find especially when helping
beginners, some of these are:
Unitialised  variables 
VAR parameters that are never changed
Value parameters that are changed and their value never used
Procedures that are declared or imported but never called
and so on ...

Does anybody have or know of a tool that will do this ? I know that 
some compilers for some languages find some of these (e.g. Berkeley Pascal)
as part of their optimizing, so if you have the (understandable) source of a PD 
compiler for Modula2 I'll be grateful.