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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Lint woes
Message-ID: <7992@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 May 91 18:23:17 GMT
References: <1991May21.033422.21445@kfw.COM>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Is it just Sun's lint that won't detect nested comments?

No.

>Are all lints this stupid (that is, do they all just accept output from cpp
>without checking the original source)?

Most, if not all, "lint"s are basically modified versions of C
compilers, and most, if not all, haven't been sufficiently modified that
they can catch that problem.