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From: stan@Dixie.Com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint (was: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <8632@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 23 Mar 91 14:59:52 GMT
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scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:

=>In article <13584@helios.TAMU.EDU> byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
=>>How many people remember to run lint on their code? How many do
=>>it at the last minute?

=>Well, I've got a number of peculiar habits, but I often make sure
=>code passes lint before even trying to compile it, when I've just
=>typed in a lot of code that I'm sure contains typos, unused
=>variables, missing arguments, etc.

	Well maybe, I have diferent progrraming habits too, but whenever
	I run into a bug thats not imediatly obvious, the firts thing
	I do is run lint.  You will be *amazed* how quickly that will point
	you to the problem.


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