Can lint help an ANSI-C programmer?

[Anthony Shipman]

In article <00937758.16FBE220 at rigel.efd.lth.se>, e89hse at rigel.efd.lth.se writes:
>  I don't see what lint discovers that a C-compiler with prototypes can't
> discover, except wrong external declarations like: hello[100], char *hello.

Lint does more than just type checking. It checks for possible logic errors
too. A frequent life saver is the way it warns me when it finds:

		if (x = 1)
		{
		...
		}
Other checks include unreachable code etc which may indicate coding errors.
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