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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:17:37 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:04:51 am by StuartYeates Revert
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-Lint was a program for K&R (pre- [ANSI- C]) [C] source code which discovered `` lint'' ---literally bits of fluff in the code. Lint was necessary because prior to [ANSI-C ] the [C] language was much looser about what it accepted, arguments and variables could have implicit types and there were a range of other conveniences. Lint performed source code checking in an era when compilers didn't. With modern [Compiler]s, lint 's function is performed by simply compiling with all the warning flags turned on (i.e. gcc -Wall ... ). 
+[ Lint] was a program which literally exmined K&R [C] SourceCode for " lint" -- bits of fluff in the code. [ Lint] was necessary because prior to [ANSI] [C], the language was much looser about what it accepted, arguments and variables could have implicit types and there were a range of other conveniences. [ Lint] performed SourceCode checking in an era when [Compiler]s didn't. With modern [Compiler]s, [Lint] 's function is performed by simply compiling with all the warning flags turned on (i.e. [ -Wall] ). 
  
-The name Lint lives on in xmllint(1) and other checkers and validators. 
+The name [ Lint] lives on in xmllint(1) and other checkers and validators. 
  
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