Re: MKLINT=no

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130821171443.GA17173%netbsd.org@localhost>,
David Holland  <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:27:11AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > I strongly believe that I am not the only own tired of dealing with lint
> > crap. As written before:
> > (1) The user experience is completely horrible. Even GCC produces more
> > sensible warnings.
> > (2) The majority of the diagnosed issues is useless. The useful cases I
> > know of are pretty much all covered by non-default options to either GCC
> > or Clang. The latter have a much, much lower false positive rate.
> > (3) The default SNR is abysmal.
> > (4) It doesn't understand GCC-style attributes and it doesn't support
> > flow graph based analysis.
> > (5) The only mildly sensible part is the inter-object checking and even
> > that is basically obsolete by using prototypes in headers.
> > (6) It still doesn't even handle C99 fully.
> > 
> > Based on all this, I want to stop wasting my time on "fallout" from lint
> > and disable it by default.
>
>As I've said before too, I don't think it should be removed (or
>disabled) until an alternate is available.

Fine, but this thing has come before many times and we don't have an
official position so we keep discussing it over and over. Let's get
an official position from core once and for all. I will abstain since
I am known to be pro-lint.

christos