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From: philipl@bronze.UUCP (Philip Lantz)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: type-checking function arguments
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 00:30:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 00:30:54 1983
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Why do we want the COMPILER to check argument types?  Lint does it
very well.  It even knows about the library functions, and functions
that take a variable arguments, and functions declared in other files,
and other problems that the compiler would have doing it.  And if
lint tells you you're passing an int to a function that takes a
short, you can cast it, which makes it clear to the next person that
looks at your code that you know what's going on, and intended it.

Philip Lantz
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