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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strange lint mumblings
Message-ID: <281@twwells.uucp>
Date: 29 Dec 88 06:16:07 GMT
References: <416@marob.MASA.COM> <11467@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <179@amsdsg.UUCP> <782@auspex.UUCP> <599@micropen>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <599@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
: I have solved this "problem" by not using the function exit() to return
: to the calling environment main() status.  Rather, use return at the end
: of main().  Lint seems to like return from functions.  It never has been
: able to deal with exit() properly, ("statement not reached", etc.) so why
: try?

Try putting /*NOTREACHED*/ after the exit(). That shuts up every lint
I know about. It's in the manual.

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Bill
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