lint fails to be my friend

[Rahul Dhesi]

In <1991Apr04.212837.13505 at ima.isc.com> suitti at ima.isc.com (Stephen
Uitti) writes:

     Lint belongs in the compiler, anyway.  Turbo C generates
     considerably more complete checking during compilation than 'lint'
     ever did, at over 3,000 lines per minute on a 7 MHz 8088 Pc/xt.

Turbo C does good intrafile checking.  However, lint really shines when
it does interfile checking.  Until we get smarter (and slower) linkers,
we will have to rely upon lint and similar programs for this.  A
compiler that did interfile checking would essentially be a linker.

Properly created headers can help the compiler do some of what lint
does, but then who checks the headers?  Lint, of course.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at cirrus.COM>
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