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Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libarch/alpha
On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:51:08PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
>> IMHO, as long as lint is capable of helping us spot actual
>> problems, adding a few of these sorts of constrcucts seems like a
>> small price to pay.
>
> It doesn't. From what I see, the signal to noise ratio of lint is
> completely inacceptable and for that very reason, uglifying the code
> with questionable constructs is not acceptable. Even worse, changing
> code for undefined/misdefined behavior of K&R (!) is simply wrong.
> ISO C90 is now 22 years old. Traditional C is irrelevant.
When was the last time that NetBSD could be compiled with a K&R compiler? 1995?
Warner
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