> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >>> It all reminds me a story when I won a bottle of beer from my >>> scientific adviser back in 2005. We had a bet: will gcc compile this >>> code: >>> #include <stdio.h> >>> int main() { >>> printf("a"); >>> int a; >>> printf("b"); >>> return 0; >>> } >>> He was so sure that gcc won't allow it that didn't ever tried :) Thus, >>> I think gnu extensions by default are not so bad :) >>> >>> Alexey >> >> Let's have a look at that. I don't see any issues really. You call >> printf() with a literal string, then define some simple integer, then >> print another literal string with a call to printf() and finally return >> back to the calling process with a status of 0. Very nice. >> <snip> > > 334 lines of research for 7 lines of code :) > > Alexey Here are 7 more :-) $ lint -v -Nlevel=4 -Xc99=all sample1.c variable unused in function (9) a in main function returns value which is always ignored printf -- Dennis Clarke dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <- Email related to open source for Solaris