Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?

[Duane M. Butler]

In article <36985 at think.Think.COM> barmar at nugodot.think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>...
>There are very few things that lint warns about that a compiler *couldn't*.
                ^^^                                               ^^^^^^^^
>But it checks lots of things that many C compilers *don't*.  It is

Lint checks consistency across multiple files.  I don't know of any C
compilers that can do this.

duane.