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From: jason@dsd.es.com (Jason Ehrhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: FORTRAN-lint
Keywords: lint fortran
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.004807.4142@dsd.es.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 00:48:07 GMT
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laporte@sobeco.com (p.laporte) writes:
|> We have seen in MIPS literature a mension of FORTRAN-lint.
|> Our local sales rep does not know anything about it.
|> Has someone used it ? Could they report on it ?
|> Pierre Laporte
|> laporte@sobeco.com

Yes, when I worked at Mips, I was asked to test it by the company
that makes fortran lint (called flint). It works in most cases, but
since it is not a regular Mips product, there were a few bugs (I
reported them, it may be better these days). Most of the bugs were
because it was built for a different architecture (A Vax if I am not
mistaken) and as a result, it complains about a few things which it
shouldn't complain about, and doesn't catch a few others. But for
the most part it performed as advertised.

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