On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > is lint gone? has it been subsumed into gcc? obviously, it's been
> > a while since i've bothered to use it, now i don't know where to look
> > for it.
> >
> The original unix lint is long gone, gone with k&r c.
as jakub pointed out, there is "splint", which i'd never heard of
before.
> Gcc -Wall does a much better and more thorough job than unix lint
> ever did, and doesn't require a separate compilation pass.
and this is also a good point -- i may reconsider the use of splint
and just crank up the warning level, unless there are some obvious
benefits to splint over "gcc -Wall".
rday
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