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Article #72120Re: GNU Lint?
From: Arnold Robbins
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1992 18:24
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1992 18:24
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|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? In article <NELSON.92Apr2210851@cheetah.clarkson.edu> 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. Arnold Robbins --- College of Computing | Laundry increases Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 | exponentially in the Domain: arnold@cc.gatech.edu Phone: +1 404 894 9214 | number of children. UUCP: uunet!cc.gatech.edu!arnold FAX: +1 404 853 9378 | -- Miriam Robbins
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1115d30c45166f3c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-04-03 10:24:48 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!news From: arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Lint? Message-ID: <1992Apr3.182448.1894@cc.gatech.edu> Date: 3 Apr 92 18:24:48 GMT Article-I.D.: cc.1992Apr3.182448.1894 References: <4=kjtlc@dixie.com> <NELSON.92Apr2210851@cheetah.clarkson.edu> Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 15