A lint question

[Rahul Dhesi]

I said:
     (Sigh.)  You can't always make the same code lint properly under
     both SVR2 and 4.3BSD because of this.  Damned if I do, unsigned if
     I don't.

In article <1165 at devon.UUCP> paul at devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) writes:
>    #ifdef BSD
>    #define SIZE    int
>    #else
>    #define SIZE    unsigned int
>    #endif

Well, let's respond to this note of despair:

     (Sigh.)  You can't always make the same code compile properly
     under both C and Pascal.

Sure you can:

     #ifdef LANG_C
     ... C code ...
     #else /* LANG_PASCAL */
     ... Pascal code ...
     #endif

Now we just run this through a preprocessor (of which there are plenty,
some free, others copylefted, and one in /lib/cpp) before submitting it
to our favorite compiler.  The question still remains:  are we
compiling the same code, or different code?
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi