Funny mistake

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Mar 23 04:33:08 AEST 1991


In article <15529 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) 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.

Depends on which UNIX world we are talking about. :-)  Real, live warnings
about suspicious but legal constructs are not unknown.
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