#: 14236 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    08-Feb-92  23:00:47
Sb: #14224-Mshell Discount?
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

The claim made by the folks who originally did lint was that the compiler
shouldn't bother to tell you about questionable constructs, but should do what
it's told and generate code for it even if it looks like a construct that may
be bogus (semantically bogus, e.g. use a variable that may not have been set).

OTOH, these days people expect compilers to do the kind of flow analysis lint
does, though for other reasons, and ANSI prototypes allow some of the error
checking that lint did, so there's less of an argument for a separate lint
program.