Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.183308.29728@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 18:33:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.195153.15509@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <15490@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Mar20.173511.3904@zoo.toronto.edu> <15529@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <15529@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) 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.

Depends on which UNIX world we are talking about. :-)  Real, live warnings
about suspicious but legal constructs are not unknown.
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