Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: YALF (yet another lint foulup)
Message-ID: <11245@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:46:12 GMT
References: <4700030@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <717@auspex.UUCP> <122@mole-end.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <122@mole-end.UUCP> mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:
>With ANSI C and function prototypes, we may hope that LINT goes away.

Rather, we may hope that *certain features* of lint will migrate into the
code-generating compiler.  But there are still uses for lint.  For example,
the exit() example that started this discussion is still within the
jurisdiction of lint, since ANSI C doesn't distinguish void-valued functions
from non-returning functions.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint