4.2 question lint -C

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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at brl-vld>

The point of the binary lint libraries is that they save much time in
linting code to be linked with the libraries, since all the parsing
etc. has already been done for the library extern definitions.

You don't need an ASCII version, your original library source code
will do.  It is, however, more convenient for a couple of reasons
to hack up an ASCII version especially for lint, like /usr/lib/llib-lc,
and build the binary lint library from that.

This is analogous to the "compressed" [nt]roff macros.