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From: twinsun!eggert@uunet.uu.net (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Lint is your friend?
Keywords: Software
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:19:20 GMT
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In Sun-Spots 9:209:15 duanev@mcc.com (Duane Voth) asks:

|Does anyone know of tricks that can be used to selectively shut lint up
|about certain problems?
|
|For example; malloc() et.al...

Try something like this:

	#ifdef lint
		char *lintalloc;
	#	define talloc(T,n) (lintalloc = malloc(sizeof(T)*(n)), (T*)0)
	#else
	#	define talloc(T,n) ((T*)malloc(sizeof(T)*(n)))
	#endif

	int *p = talloc(int, 100);  /* example of use */

You can thus muzzle lint as selectively as you please, but don't overdo it!