Re: whatever happened to "lint"?

["K. Richard Pixley" <rich@xxxxxxxx>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  is lint gone?  has it been subsumed into gcc?  obviously, it's been
> a while since i've bothered to use it, now i don't know where to look
> for it.
The original unix lint is long gone, gone with k&r c.

Gcc -Wall does a much better and more thorough job than unix lint ever 
did, and doesn't require a separate compilation pass.

There are other lint inspired tools around and some of those do things 
like malloc/free checking and inter-file flow checking.  I don't know of 
any that are free software that work compile time, though.

--rich