Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?

[Mark Harrison]

In article <36985 at think.Think.COM>, barmar at think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>                                                              It is
> traditional that C compilers do minimal checking, and lint is used when the
> programmer wants extensive checking.  This tradition is fading, though, as
> C has reached more environments.  For instance, integrated development
> systems such as Turbo C generally ignore this tradition.  GNU C also does
> lots of checking (although there are options to control it) because the GNU
> developers don't believe in tradition for its own sake.

Turbo C also has options to control how much checking is performed.
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