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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++Lint thingees (was: Re: Smart Pointers -- A proposed language extension)
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Date: 6 Feb 91 19:13:01 GMT
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In article <9102060507.AA24293@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, jlol@REMUS.EE.BYU.EDU (Jay Lawlor) writes:
|> Anyway, back to the subject.  I don't know if this has been mentioned
|> but I always thought one nice feature of lint was to tell you about
|> variables that are defined but never used.  It doesn't affect your
|> code performance or correctness but it does help clean up and improve
|> readability, etc.  Are there compilers (c++, ANSI C, whatever) which
|> perform this function?

gcc and g++ do this, if you turn on the warning.  Do gcc -O -Wall or
g++ -O -Wall and most of the tests that lint performs will be performed
by the compiler.
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Joe Buck
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