"lint" lets very bad code pass

[Jerry Aguirre]

> The V7 "lint" (or, at least, the version of it that comes with 4.2BSD),
> gives error messages for code that passes an "int" value to a routine that
> expects a "long" or pointer value, even though such code is likely to work
> on 4.2BSD systems which will have 32-bit "int"s.
> 
> However, the System V Release 2 "lint" had code added to it *specifically*
> to prevent it from complaining about this on machines with sizeof(int) ==
> sizeof(long) if the actual argument is a constant.  This is a bad idea for
> several reasons:
> 	Guy Harris

A test like this should be under control of the -p or -c option of lint.
Does it still allow int-long equality if you use the -p option?

				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
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