On Wednesday, Dec 29th 2004 at 13:43 -0500, quoth Robert P. J. Day: =>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 Do *not* depend on -Wall. Read the info page and use Wall as a starting point. There are lots of other switches that should be used on a routine basis. And also, none of this makes any difference unless you correct your code to quiet the warning messages. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
