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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint (was: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.050756.19964@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 91 05:07:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu>
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From article <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu>, by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):
> 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... :-) :-) :-) :-)

Not a bad idea at all.  Then one can have an ansi-c-mode in one's favorite
editor that pulls up the standard, open to the relevant page, next to an
editing window with your cursor on the offending source line.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com