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From: "Gary@internet.UUCP (AMXBR-VLD-V)" <moss@Brl-Vld.ARPA>
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Why does S5 lint dislike all casts to long?
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 10:59:54 EST
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How about declaring ints that are always positive as unsigned...

main()
	{
	unsigned	b = 0;
	long		l;

	l = b;
	}

Agreed, sometimes lint is dead wrong.  Sometimes I just comment the code
with something to the effect that lint will give the following bogus
message here.
__Moss__