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In article <5914@moscom.com> ndk@moscom.com (Ned D Kavanagh) writes:
>is it silly to use lint, since the gnu compiler and
>linker do more rigorous checking than lint, anyway?

Ha!  FlexeLint from Gimpel Software is a LOT better than gcc's warnings.

- Each FlexeLint message can be individually turned off or on by special
  comments in code.  They can be tweaked in related groups (all the 5xx
  info messages, say), and by symbols (don't complain about having no
  declarations for *printf, say).  That ALONE is worth the price.

- FlexeLint has hundreds of different messages. many about conditions
  that gcc doesn't check for.

- FlexeLint can do inter-file checking.

- FlexeLint's message text is clearer than any compiler's I've seen.
  There's a manual with each numbered message individually explained in
  greater depth.

- Great support.  I called in with an obscure bug, and the president of
  the company called me back a couple of hours later and told me the
  patch to apply.

- It's available in (obsfucated) source, and it's very portable: PCs to
  Crays and lots in between

I have no financial interest in Gimpel Software; I'm just a satisfied
customer.

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Tim McDaniel, Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
mcdaniel@convex.com, mcdaniel@mozart.convex.com, mcdaniel@cyberspace.org