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In article <1992Apr3.182448.1894@cc.gatech.edu> arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins) writes:

   |In article <4=kjtlc@dixie.com> eeh@dixie.com (Ed Howland) writes:
   |    I have been trying to find sources to a public domain version of lint,
   |    with little avail. Is the GNU project working on this?

   nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

   >Nope.  The idea is that gcc does what lint does, only it does it
   >every time you compile.  Damn good idea, too!

   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.

This is a good reason to use a C++ compiler to compile your C
code.  It encodes the types of the arguments in the function
symbol so if you declare it differently in different places
your program won't link.

-david