From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: On C Checkers Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5223 Posted: Mon Feb 28 02:56:25 1983 Received: Tue Mar 1 07:38:45 1983 From: Chris TorekDate: 31 Dec 82 04:29:17 EST (Fri) I haven't seen cchk, but I'll bet it doesn't find this error: while (cp < cend) *cp++ == *ct++; where the == should be a single equals sign. Lint doesn't find this; cc doesn't; and it took me about a half hour in a relatively short piece of code! (I think Whitesmith's compiler would report "useless expression".) It's the sort of thing you can easily skip over, since it looks so similar to what it should say.