Another Lint Koan? -- (Oops)

[dzd at cosivax.UUCP]

Thanks  to  Peter Gross for pointing out that I made a typo in my
previous posting concerning a lint  problem;  I  had  "@time_sec"
where  I  meant  "&time_sec".   This  made the problem sound like
merely a complaint on the obscurity of lint's error messages.  It
was correct (&) in the original program.  In fact, my problem  is
not  a  complaint  about  lint  reporting  a syntax error with an
obscure message but rather that  it  complained  at  all  on  one
version (VAX with Eunice) but not on another (VENIX).

As far as I can see, there is no error in the program, especially
in  type-declarations  of  localtime()  and  p.   Thus  I tend to
believe VENIX but not Eunice.  But no matter my personal beliefs,
*one of them* is wrong.  I would be interested to hear what other
"lints" think about this program.  If Eunice "lint" is wrong, its
system administrator would like to know about it.   If  VENIX  is
wrong,   I  would  like  to  know  it.   (The  VAX  is  owned  by
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan  and  the  IBM-PC/XT
with VENIX is my own.)

Dean Douthat

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