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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Lint for Think C
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Date: 5 Aug 90 19:59:35 GMT
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	I'm just starting to get into programming on the Mac.  I'm using
Think C.  What I can't seem to figure out is how to debug programs,
especially when it comes to tracking down pointer mistakes.  For example, I
just tracked down a bug resulting from my doing "GlobalToLocal (point)"
instead of "GlobalToLocal (&point)".  On a Unix system, lint would have
caught something like that.  Think C seems to do some sort of built in type
checking with toolbox routines, but didn't catch this one.  Any suggestions
for how to find stuff like that?
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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