Funny mistake

[Scott Amspoker]

In article <1991Mar21.021504.25553 at murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w at astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>Doug Gwyn:
>#>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.
>
>Well,
>1) I said optional flag, so the person who wants silent complations of
>their strictly conforming programs get it, and the person who wants
>warning can have that also.
>[...]
>I would sugguest that compilers should do lint (after setting a flag)
>as part of their function.
>
>I know for a fact that many would disagree.

Well I'm not one of them.  I agree completely.  I see no reason to
run a source file through lint prior to the C compiler everytime I
make a change when I could enable certain desireable warning messages
(of mistakes I frequently make) within the compiler.

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