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From: ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Usual arithmetic conversions
Keywords: sizeof unsigned ouch
Message-ID: <311@donk.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 22:03:10 GMT
References: <308@donk.UUCP> <13396@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Organization: DTE, Intel Corporation; Hillsboro, OR
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In article <13396@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> In article <308@donk.UUCP> ajw@donk.UUCP (ajw) writes:
> >This took a few merry hours to find:
> >	if (hairy_unsigned_expression >= 0) ...
> 
> Is this because (a) you don't use lint, (b) you don't pay attention to the
> warning it produces on this, or (c) there were so many lint warnings that it
> took hours to find the right one?

Ahem! In this case, the first, actually (working program, hadn't changed a line
of code, etc.etc.)  I am roundly castigated; I have broken the first commandment
(UT version, not OT); I am a worm, and no man; a byword and a laughing stock.

Anyway - when I _did_ run lint on this function, it not only told me about the
unsigned comparison, but it called me a degenerate!! I mean, I don't mind being
scolded by _Walking_ lints, but PROGRAMS fer Chrissake?

Colon Hyphen RightParen.

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

-- Alan Waldock, just offering individual opinions while happening to work at 
Intel Corp, M/S HF2-37, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497
ajw@aus.hf.intel.com   ...uunet!littlei!intelhf!aus!ajw  "Live malloc or die"