"lint" lets very bad code pass

[Guy Harris]

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

> We must have very different versions of lint.  Here is an extract from the
> 4.1BSD lint man page listing of options:
>
>      c    Complain about casts which have questionable portabil-
>           ity.

Yes, we certainly do have different versions of "lint".  Here is an extract
from the System V Release 2 lint man page listing of options:

     -c     Cause *lint* to produce a ".ln" file for every ".c" file
            on the command line.

Note: 1) this discussion was about System V Release 2 "lint" and 2) this
newsgroup is "net.bugs.usg" which, presumably, is intended for bug reports
about "USG" (now USDL) UNIX systems, like S3 and S5, or for bug reports
which apply equally well to USDL systems and other systems, not for bug
reports which apply only to V7, 2.xBSD, or 4.xBSD systems.

	Guy Harris