lint (was: Funny mistake)

[Byron Rakitzis]

In article <5036 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
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>But will your hand-holding compiler check that a *group* of files are
>consistent?  That's what I really depend on lint for.

I don't see what you need over and above good function-prototype checking.
I am going to write a compiler strongly biased towards ANSI C; if you don't
supply prototypes, you will pay the price of not having the use of
unprototyped functions checked for type safety.