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From: tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Portability check in lint
Message-ID: <949@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 11:19:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.949
Posted: Wed Jul 15 11:19:15 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:14:54 EDT
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Keywords: lint portability

I noticed that in the latest release of Sun 3 software which we have (I
believe it is 3.2), there is no -p option for lint to perform portability
checks.  This option does exist, however, in the System V version of lint
presumably distributed with the Sun 3.2 software.

Did Berkeley lint (if there is such a thing) ever have this option, was
it excised for some reason, or what?  I am just curious, as I consider
the constraints of eight character symbol names (six characters external)
as somewhat of an anachronism portability-wise, but I could well be wrong.

Would anyone care to comment on this?  Apologies if this topic has already
been discussed at length; in that case if someone could email me a brief
synopsis I would appreciate it.
-- 

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