On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > is lint gone? has it been subsumed into gcc? obviously, it's been > > a while since i've bothered to use it, now i don't know where to look > > for it. > > > The original unix lint is long gone, gone with k&r c. as jakub pointed out, there is "splint", which i'd never heard of before. > Gcc -Wall does a much better and more thorough job than unix lint > ever did, and doesn't require a separate compilation pass. and this is also a good point -- i may reconsider the use of splint and just crank up the warning level, unless there are some obvious benefits to splint over "gcc -Wall". rday
