questions from using lint

[Wayne A. Christopher]

In article <256 at valid.UUCP>, gelfand at valid.UUCP writes:

> I have been programming for many years (over 20) in many different 
> languages, and C is the only language that I can remember that
> has a separate program (lint) to find and report compiler errors in 
> source code.

First, lint doesn't report ERRORS -- it reports possible problems.  Second,
there is no other way you can check things like argument types (except for
prototyping, which will make lint much less useful), since you generally 
compile only one .c file at a time.

	Wayne