lint on V.3

[Larry Campbell]

In article <MRD.89Sep1110612 at sun.clarkson.edu> mrd at sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
-Does anybody know what would cause lint to print
-"To many names" 
-or more important how to fix this?

I suspect the reason is that some IDIOT built lint with a fixed-size array
somewhere, and made the size so small that only toy programs can be linted.

I have run into the same EXTREMELY IRRITATING problem with Interactive 386/ix
V2.0.1 (derived from SVR3.2).  When I called Interactive to complain, they
said "how big is your program" and when I said "oh, maybe, 75K lines of code"
they sort of fell over backwards and said "oh, wow, man, that's huge".
Gimme a break.  750K lines is rather big.  75K lines is pretty humdrum stuff.

I think your only recourse (and mine) is to complain loudly to our respective
software suppliers to recompile lint with a reasonably sized array.  And
reasonable means (listen up, spuds!) it had better be able to handle over
500K lines of code, with over 100K distinct names.
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