Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:49:16 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net (Gerhard Sittig) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lint Message-ID: <200011232049.NAA17951@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20001123193652.V27042@speedy.gsinet> from Gerhard Sittig at "Nov 23, 0 07:36:52 pm"
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As I recall, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > Some people will tell you that lint is obsoleted by compiling with > tough compiler settings (not just -Wall, but -pedantic and friends > too). Yeah. Lint got invented because the compilers (and computers) of the time were pretty slow. So, they moved the error checking into a seperate program, so you didn't have to work through it for production compiles, just the development process. But GCC with the right switches can do a better job than Lint anyway Because as it does register coloring and the like it's better at catching stuff like "used before initialized". -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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