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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 ...). The name Lint lives on in xmllint(1) and other checkers and validators. ---- CategorySoftwareEngineeringTools
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