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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint (was: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <15602@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 27 Mar 91 21:43:13 GMT
References: <13619@helios.TAMU.EDU> <ENAG.91Mar27025243@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no> <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Which brings to mind the image of the ANSI C compiler Ken Thompson would
>write:  all it prints for an error message is the page number in the
>standard... :-) :-) :-) :-)

I guess that would be so one could tell where the error came from.
"?" or "eh?" already belong to other utilities.