Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!rch From: rch@brunix.UUCP (Rich Yampell) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: porting to a Prime seen as a probable negative experience Message-ID: <9642@brunix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 22:21:56 EDT Article-I.D.: brunix.9642 Posted: Sat Sep 22 22:21:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 06:54:53 EDT References: brl-tgr.4732, wjh12.509, <9410@brunix.UUCP> Lines: 8 >If people would use lint they wouldn't have so much trouble wih things >like 0 being used where (datum *)0 is called for. true, but it does not always follow that if one has a c compiler, one also has lint. I spent the summer working on CP/M 68K on a Motorola VME-10 and there was no lint (much to my chagrin many times over). Instead, the compiler tried to do more checking than one normally expects in a c compiler. And it failed abyssmally at that task.