Funny mistake

[Henry Spencer]

In article <15490 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In the world of UNIX, we normally rely on "lint" to generate warnings
>about *possible* problems like this.  The compilers are expected to
>accept conforming translation units and silently translate them.

Actually, in the world of UNIX this is a pervasive myth.  Even in the
world of UNIX, the compilers generate warnings for excessively-suspicious
constructs.  They just don't go as far in that direction as some more
modern compilers.
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