On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Havard Eidnes wrote:

>>> This should fix some of the lint issues in proplib on some of
>>> our platforms.
>>
>> ...and countless other bits of code that have been "fixed" over the
>> years by casting constant arguments to one type or another.
>
> Yep.  Do you have suggestions for how to find these?  Coax lint
> into helping us? ;-)

Actually, I now that I think about it, I think you could coax lint  
into helping... modify lint to issue a warning about a constant that  
is being cast to a type when the constant would have already fit into  
that type's range.  Make it a new lint option flag...

-- thorpej