Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.173511.3904@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 17:35:11 GMT
References: <8148@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <15481@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Mar16.195153.15509@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <15490@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <15490@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In the world of UNIX, we normally rely on "lint" to generate warnings
>about *possible* problems like this.  The compilers are expected to
>accept conforming translation units and silently translate them.

Actually, in the world of UNIX this is a pervasive myth.  Even in the
world of UNIX, the compilers generate warnings for excessively-suspicious
constructs.  They just don't go as far in that direction as some more
modern compilers.
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