Funny mistake

Paul H. Hargrove hargrove at theory.tn.cornell.edu
Thu Mar 21 12:44:47 AEST 1991


In article <15529 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1991Mar20.173511.3904 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>Even in the world of UNIX, the compilers generate warnings for
>>excessively-suspicious constructs.
>
>Only for outright violations of the language specification,
>not for what are now known as strictly conforming programs.


And the AIX C compiler which has chosen to take on lint's responsibilities.
But that's IBM for you: If there's a perfectly good tool available, then
rewrite it and stick a copyright on your version.

Paul H. Hargrove | hargrove at theory.tn.cornell.edu | I said what?



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