lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??

[Bob Weissman]

In article <27729 at lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, berry at lll-crg.llnl.gov (Berry Kercheval) writes:
> In article <441a30e5.8f55 at fiero.engin.umich.edu>, ejd at caen (Edward J Driscoll) writes:
> >It [[ if(x==5); ]]is legal, but I would hope for a warning from such an 
> > obvious semantic error.  
> 
> Goodness, save me from useless warnings for perfectly good C
> constructs.  This is NOT an "obvious" semantic error.  Have you never
> done something like this?
> 
> 	/* skip to end of word */
> 	while(!isspace(*cp++));

Sorry, but "while" is quite different from "if".

I'm not talking about
	random_keyword (expression);

I'm talking about
	if (expression);
which, while legal, *never* makes sense semantically, as it is always
equivalent to
	expression;

OK?

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