Subject: Re: Problems with lint(1)
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/29/1998 15:19:33
Christos Zoulas writes:
> That might be a worth-while goal; we need to make a clear decision
> about implementing __attribute__ directives in lint:
>
> - do we implement all/any supported gcc attributes?
I'd say we should.
> - how do we deal with ARGSUSED/NOTREACHED? It would be nice to
> be consistant and use a unified syntax for all lint annotations
> instead of having a mixture of lint comments and __attribute__
> statements.
I think we should use the standard lint comment directives to the
extent that we can, but that lint should also know, at the very least,
about __attribute__((noreturn))
Perry