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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: How to let lint check your format strings
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 23:28:09 EST
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> Something that may not have been obvious....to turn it back off
> when the code is de-linted, have another .h file like this:
> 
> #define procent_a(a)	a
> #define procent_b(a)	a

The idea of having lint use constant format strings to check types and
arg counts is a great one.  I have wanted to do this for many years as
argument types and counts for printf and its buddies are one of my more
frequent errors.  Could we come up with a system that does not require any
includes or modifications to the code to do it?  This would be great!