Re: GNU Lint?

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1992 21:42

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arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins) writes:

>Alas, this is not quite true.  GCC does most of what lint does.  At least one
>exception is cross-file checking.  GCC won't catch a function declared
>one way in one file and defined another way in another file.

It's not hard to avoid that.  Ask gcc to warn about any function which
defaults to int (he can do that), and always include the header file
containing the prototype of foo() at the top of the file containing
foo().

        -ans.
-- 

Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

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