Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Some bugs in lint
Message-ID: <7346@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 25 Feb 88 18:36:05 GMT
References: <238@ksr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 6

In article <238@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies) writes:
>Bug? (3): to me, it seems wrong that lint reports duplicate definitions
>against the library.

This is an important feature of lint.  How do you know that some function
you invoke in the C library won't end up calling your bcopy() instead of
the one it was expecting?