LINT

Wayne A. Christopher faustus at cad.UUCP
Wed May 14 06:05:09 AEST 1986


In article <2452 at watmath.UUCP>, rbutterworth at watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes:
> I too used to think that most of what lint complained about was crap.
> I also noticed an awful lot of things that it didn't complain about but
> should have.  So I took the source and turned on all the options that
> normally make it shut up about certain things, and then added even more
> checks than lint ever had before.  Then I looked at all the crap in the
> output and gradually taught lint which one's really were crap and
> shouldn't be issued.  Now I have a version of lint with which I use
> four fifths of what it complains about.

Sounds great.  Can we have it?  (Post diffs to net.sources, maybe?)

	Wayne



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