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From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Checking # of parms
Summary: lint!
Message-ID: <1195@root44.co.uk>
Date: 22 Dec 89 12:21:43 GMT
References: <339@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu>
Reply-To: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England
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In article <339@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu> tad@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Tad Alan Davis) writes:

>Is there a quick & dirty way, using grep, awk, or some such filter to check
>the number of parmeters of a function.  Basically, I have a large set of 
>functions which I call frequently with the wrong number of parms.  I want to
>put the names of the functions and the number of parms in a file and use a
>filter to check them in a C program.

I have seen a couple of answers to this which suggest using the
C preprocessor for this.  That's fine as far as it goes, but I would
suggest a better solution is to create a lint library for these
functions, then you will get the argument types checked as well.
-- 
Geoff Clare, UniSoft Limited, Saunderson House, Hayne Street, London EC1A 9HH
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