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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: log10(8)
Message-ID: <16048@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 03:29:08 GMT
References: <3244@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <16022@haddock.ima.isc.com> <756@s5.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <756@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
>lint might not tell him about the tragedy unless he [specifies -lm]

True (as Mark Brader also pointed out).  But (a) in that case he'd still get a
warning `log10 used but not defined', which is a clue, and (b) in order to get
this far he has to already know about `cc -lm', and it doesn't take too much
imagination to guess that lint requires the same magic as cc.  (Similarly for
any -D flags.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.is.ccom or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint