Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!vsedev!logan
From: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: YALF (yet another lint foulup)
Message-ID: <1283@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 02:15:53 GMT
References: <4700030@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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In article <4700030@m.cs.uiuc.edu> wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
# 
# Lint believes this simple program has both return(e); and just return;
# 
# function()
# {
# 	int flag;
# 	do{
# 		return(3);
# 	} while(flag);
# }
# 
# I suppose this should be added to the canonical collection of lint foulups.

The function itself is a foulup.  First, you haven't initialized
"flag", and second, the function can be replaced with:  

	#define function()	3

What's the point?  Returning from the middle of a loop is poor
programming!

			-Jim
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