Lint woes

[Mark Harrison]

In article <1991May21.033422.21445 at kfw.COM> dan at kfw.com (Dan Mick) writes:

>Is it just Sun's lint that won't detect nested comments?
>
>Are all lints this stupid (that is, do they all just accept output from cpp
>without checking the original source)?

Try Gimpel's flexelint/PC lint:

$ cat nested.c
main()
{
/* foo * /
/* bar */
}

$ flint -e533 nested.c
FlexeLint (U32) Ver. 4.00h, Copyright Gimpel Software 1985-1990

--- Object:   /usr/local/lib/lc.lob
--- Object:   /usr/local/lib/lm.lob
--- Module:   nested.c
nested.c  4  Warning 602: Comment within comment
$

The flag -e533 turns off:
nested.c  5  Warning 533: Return mode of main inconsistent with line 1
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