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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: lint fails to be my friend
Message-ID: <755@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 91 04:59:50 GMT
References: <1059@eplunix.UUCP>
Organization: NEC America Inc. SSD, Irving, TX
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In article <1059@eplunix.UUCP>, das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens) writes:
> When beginning maintenance activities on code that someone else has written,
> the first thing I do is to run lint on the code to see what pops out.
> This time, lint failed to find something that I think it should have.

Gimpel's Flexelint catches it.  I *LIKE* flexelint.

} FlexeLint (U32) Ver. 4.00h, Copyright Gimpel Software 1985-1990
} foo.c  7  Warning 530: foo (line 3) not initialized
} foo.c  9  Warning 530: bar (line 4) not initialized
} foo.c  11  Warning 530: blap (line 4) not initialized
} foo.c  13  Warning 530: flap (line 4) not initialized
} foo.c  15  Warning 530: baz (line 5) not initialized
} foo.c  18  Warning 533: Return mode of main inconsistent with line 1

PS, you forgot to return a value from main(). :-) :-) :-)
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