"lint" lets very bad code pass

Jerry Aguirre jerry at oliveb.UUCP
Tue Aug 6 12:59:16 AEST 1985


> 1) "-c option"?  That option tells "lint" to compile a "lint" library.  Why
> should that have anything to do with this?
>
> 	Guy Harris

We must have very different versions of lint.  Here is an extract from the
4.1BSD lint man page listing of options:

     a    Report assignments of long values to int variables.

     c    Complain about casts which have questionable portabil-
          ity.

This seems to match what the code says those options do.

				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
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