YALF (yet another lint foulup)

[James Logan III]

In article <4700030 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> wsmith at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
# 
# Lint believes this simple program has both return(e); and just return;
# 
# function()
# {
# 	int flag;
# 	do{
# 		return(3);
# 	} while(flag);
# }
# 
# I suppose this should be added to the canonical collection of lint foulups.

The function itself is a foulup.  First, you haven't initialized
"flag", and second, the function can be replaced with:  

	#define function()	3

What's the point?  Returning from the middle of a loop is poor
programming!

			-Jim
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