Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dgbt!don
From: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: Re lint
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.155508.28031@dgbt.doc.ca>
Sender: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 91 15:55:08 GMT

>
>	Well maybe, I have diferent progrraming habits too, but whenever
>	I run into a bug thats not imediatly obvious, the firts thing
>	I do is run lint.  You will be *amazed* how quickly that will point
>	you to the problem.
>
>
>-- 
>Stan Brown	P. c. Design 	404-363-2303	Ataant Ga.
>(emory|gatech|uunet) rsiatl!sdba!stan				"vi forever"
>
>

Gee what a novel concept. 1) compile as normal.
			  2) let the compiler find "normal" bugs.
			  3) fix them
			  4) code still does something funny, use lint.

Isn't that what everyone does? ... If not, why not?

