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From: rcvie@tuvie (ELIN Forsch.z.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: = vs ==, and do 10 i = 1.3
Keywords: C, lint, checking
Message-ID: <567@tuvie>
Date: 25 Jan 88 09:52:46 GMT
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Reply-To: rcvie@tuvie.UUCP (Alcatel-ELIN Forsch.z.)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
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In article <887@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
>...
>Indentation is IGNORED by Lint and the compiler, but is superficially VERY
>significant to we visually oriented beings.  Thus the occasional problem
>in spotting the above class of errors.
>...

Perhaps you try a better lint! We use Gimpel's which handles indentation, the 
==/= problem, etc. We detected many of these cryptic errors that way.

			Dietmar Weickert,
				ALCATEL-ELIN Research Center, Vienna, Austria.