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From: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C lint type tool wanted
Keywords: lint ANSI ansi C gcc
Message-ID: <919@tcs.tcs.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 18:54:26 GMT
References: <6568@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
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Reply-To: gwu@nujoizey.tcs.com (George Wu)
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In article <6568@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>, markh@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark C
Henderson) writes:
|> We are looking for an ANSI C lint.
|> 
|> gcc -Wall won't do what we want. In particular it doesn't cover what
|> is covered by pass 2 in SUN OS lint, i.e. checking the consistency of
|> declarations across files.

     Use header files, ie. something like:

foo.h:
======
extern int func(const char *);

file1.c:
========
#include "foo.h"

int
func(const char* s)
{
}

file2.h:
=======
#include "foo.h"

int
main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    while (argc) {
        func(argv[argc--]);
    }
}

|> Please respond by Email as I don't read these groups all that
|> regularly. Any pointers would be appreciated.

     I posted and emailed this response.

							George

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