Yet Another Lint Foul-up
Jack L. Vevea
vevea at paideia.uchicago.edu
Fri Jan 6 18:09:25 AEST 1989
I've passively watched the discussion of lint's problems with
exit(0) from main(), and find myself wondering why it matters. I use
lint to check my code, but I've gotten into the habit of automatically
ignoring certain output, including 'warning: main() returns a random
value to the invocation environment.' Being primarily a psychometrician,
and not a professional C (or any other language) programmer, I find myself
wondering if some of you out there are working under conditions in which
some higher authority requires you to produce a clean lint run as
evidence of good coding. Otherwise, it would seem to me that any
concern with the message would be evidence of your being a slave to
lint; why else be concerned when you _know_ that the warning is
inconsequential?
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