lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??

[Edward J Driscoll]

In article <411 at isadora.ikp.liu.se> 
hacker at isadora.ikp.liu.se (Goran Larsson [Hacker of Hackefors]) writes:
>In article <105 at borabora.omni.com> bob at omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
>>Last week I spent an entire day tracking down one of those bugs you just
>>don't see after staring at your code too long.  It was of the form:
>>
>>	if (condition);
>>	    action;
>
>>My lint (SunOS 4.0.1 version) did not flag the extra semicolon.
>
>It isn't supposed to find this "error" as it is legal C.
>

It is legal, but I would hope for a warning from such an obvious
semantic error.  I don't use lint much, but Borland TC 2.0 will
warn you about some *legal* constructs like "if(x = 5)".  Oddly, I
just tried it and it also lets "if(x==5);" get by without a peep.
Oh well.

>>I Hate C.
>
>I Love C
 ^^^^^^^^^^^---->me too


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Ed Driscoll
The University of Michigan
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