Human-readable lint libraries
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Oct 31 10:51:59 AEST 1990
> However, there are no flags (or combinations of same) which
> seem to result in the production of said "stripped down lint
> library source files".
...
>From the lint manual page:
>
> -Clibrary
> Create a lint library with the name llib-llibrary.ln.
>
>Also, -i will generate a .ln file with just the routines and the call
>lines.
Nice try, but a ".ln" file is *NOT* a "stripped down lint library source
file", it's a *binary* "lint" library file. As Larry McVoy (who was
recently in hand-to-hand combat with "lint" libraries) notes, having the
stripped-down source files are handy, because when "lint" complains
about a parameter mismatch between line XXX of YYY.c and line NNN of
llib-ZZZ, you can go look at line NNN of llib-ZZZ (that being the
stripped-down "lint" library source file) and see what parameters the
routine expects.
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