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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lint libraries for dpANS C and POSIX?
Summary: How about an alternate method for lint libraries?
Message-ID: <999@vsi.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 23:44:28 GMT
References: <1321@fig.bbn.com> <1325@fig.bbn.com>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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/rich $alz posted a complete lint library for ANSI C, but
maybe now is the time for an extension for lint.  Rather than
the standard lint function template format such as:

	char *strcpy(s1, s2) char *s1; const char *s2; { return 0; }

why not permit the prototype form?  Then, the lint library
would be something like:

	/* llib-lc.c */
	/*LINTPROTOLIBRARY*/	/* <---- I made this up	*/
	#include	<stdio.h>
	#include	<stddef.h>
	#include	....

Continue to support the old method, but this would make it
*much* easier to maintain lint libraries because they don't
have to be manually diddled with.

     Comments?
     Steve

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