Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!oliven!oliveb!jerry From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: "lint" lets very bad code pass Message-ID: <550@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 22:59:16 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.550 Posted: Mon Aug 5 22:59:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 04:59:06 EDT References: <2454@sun.uucp> <539@oliveb.UUCP> <2542@sun.uucp> Distribution: net Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 17 > 1) "-c option"? That option tells "lint" to compile a "lint" library. Why > should that have anything to do with this? > > Guy Harris We must have very different versions of lint. Here is an extract from the 4.1BSD lint man page listing of options: a Report assignments of long values to int variables. c Complain about casts which have questionable portabil- ity. This seems to match what the code says those options do. Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC {hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry