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From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A bad design decision early on in ANSI C.
Message-ID: <16051@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 87 15:00:39 GMT
References: <1322@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1322@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> I would like to suggest removing a "feature" from 'C'.
> Structure assignment/passing.
> ... A simple typo (leaving out an &) can ruin your whole day.
> I still get bitten by this bug every now and then.
> At least compiler designers should provide a switch to turn it off.

Try using LINT.
It's really quite good at telling you when you have mismatched
arguments.