"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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