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From: hargrove@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Paul H. Hargrove)
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 02:44:47 GMT

In article <15529@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1991Mar20.173511.3904@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>Even in the world of UNIX, the compilers generate warnings for
>>excessively-suspicious constructs.
>
>Only for outright violations of the language specification,
>not for what are now known as strictly conforming programs.


And the AIX C compiler which has chosen to take on lint's responsibilities.
But that's IBM for you: If there's a perfectly good tool available, then
rewrite it and stick a copyright on your version.

Paul H. Hargrove | hargrove@theory.tn.cornell.edu | I said what?