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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)lint.1      6.2 (Berkeley) 3/17/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH LINT 1 "March 17, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: lint \- a C program verifier
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B lint
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-abchnpuvx
        !            15: ]
        !            16: file ...
        !            17: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            18: .I Lint
        !            19: attempts to detect features of the C program
        !            20: .I files
        !            21: which are
        !            22: likely to be bugs, or non-portable, or wasteful.
        !            23: It also checks the type usage of the program more strictly
        !            24: than the compilers.
        !            25: Among the things which are currently found are
        !            26: unreachable statements,
        !            27: loops not entered at the top,
        !            28: automatic variables declared and not used,
        !            29: and logical expressions whose value is constant.
        !            30: Moreover, the usage of functions is checked to find
        !            31: functions which return values in some places and not in others,
        !            32: functions called with varying numbers of arguments,
        !            33: and functions whose values are not used.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: By default, it is assumed that all the
        !            36: .I files
        !            37: are to be loaded together; they are checked for
        !            38: mutual compatibility.
        !            39: Function definitions for certain libraries are available to
        !            40: .IR lint ;
        !            41: these libraries are referred to by a
        !            42: conventional name,
        !            43: such as `\-lm', in the style of
        !            44: .IR ld (1).
        !            45: Arguments ending in
        !            46: .I .ln
        !            47: are also treated as library files.  To create lint libraries,
        !            48: use the
        !            49: .B \-C
        !            50: option:
        !            51: .IP
        !            52: lint \-Cfoo files . . .
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: where
        !            55: .I files
        !            56: are the C sources of library
        !            57: .I foo.
        !            58: The result is a file
        !            59: .I llib-lfoo.ln
        !            60: in the correct library format suitable for linting programs
        !            61: using
        !            62: .I foo.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: Any number of the options in the following list
        !            65: may be used.
        !            66: The
        !            67: .SM
        !            68: .BR \-D "\*S,"
        !            69: .SM
        !            70: .BR \-U "\*S,"
        !            71: and
        !            72: .SM
        !            73: .B \-I
        !            74: options of
        !            75: .IR cc (1)
        !            76: are also recognized as separate arguments.
        !            77: .TP
        !            78: .B p
        !            79: Attempt to check portability to the
        !            80: .I IBM
        !            81: and
        !            82: .I GCOS
        !            83: dialects of C.
        !            84: .TP
        !            85: .B h
        !            86: Apply a number of heuristic tests to attempt to
        !            87: intuit bugs, improve style, and reduce waste.
        !            88: .TP
        !            89: .B b
        !            90: Report
        !            91: .I break
        !            92: statements that cannot be reached.
        !            93: (This is not the default because, unfortunately,
        !            94: most
        !            95: .I lex
        !            96: and many
        !            97: .I yacc
        !            98: outputs produce dozens of such comments.)
        !            99: .TP
        !           100: .B v
        !           101: Suppress complaints about unused arguments in functions.
        !           102: .TP
        !           103: .B x
        !           104: Report variables referred to by extern declarations,
        !           105: but never used.
        !           106: .TP
        !           107: .B a
        !           108: Report assignments of long values to int variables.
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .B c
        !           111: Complain about casts which have questionable portability.
        !           112: .TP
        !           113: .B u
        !           114: Do not complain about functions and variables used and not
        !           115: defined, or defined and not used (this is suitable for running
        !           116: .I lint
        !           117: on a subset of files out of a larger program).
        !           118: .TP
        !           119: .B n
        !           120: Do not check compatibility against the standard library.
        !           121: .TP
        !           122: .B z
        !           123: Do not complain about structures that are never defined (e.g.
        !           124: using a structure pointer without knowing its contents.).
        !           125: .PP
        !           126: .IR Exit (2)
        !           127: and other functions which do not return
        !           128: are not understood; this causes various lies.
        !           129: .PP
        !           130: Certain conventional comments in the C source
        !           131: will change the behavior of
        !           132: .IR lint :
        !           133: .TP
        !           134: /*NOTREACHED*/
        !           135: at appropriate points
        !           136: stops comments about unreachable code.
        !           137: .TP
        !           138: .RI /*VARARGS n */
        !           139: suppresses
        !           140: the usual checking for variable numbers of arguments
        !           141: in the following function declaration.
        !           142: The data types of the first
        !           143: .I n
        !           144: arguments are checked;
        !           145: a missing
        !           146: .I n
        !           147: is taken to be 0.
        !           148: .TP
        !           149: /*NOSTRICT*/
        !           150: shuts off strict type checking in the next expression.
        !           151: .TP
        !           152: /*ARGSUSED*/
        !           153: turns on the
        !           154: .B \-v
        !           155: option for the next function.
        !           156: .TP
        !           157: /*LINTLIBRARY*/
        !           158: at the beginning of a file shuts off complaints about
        !           159: unused functions in this file.
        !           160: .SH AUTHOR
        !           161: S.C. Johnson.  Lint library construction implemented by Edward Wang.
        !           162: .SH FILES
        !           163: .ta \w'/usr/lib/lint/llib-port.ln  'u
        !           164: /usr/lib/lint/lint[12] programs
        !           165: .br
        !           166: /usr/lib/lint/llib-lc.ln       declarations for standard functions
        !           167: .br
        !           168: /usr/lib/lint/llib-lc  human readable version of above
        !           169: .br
        !           170: /usr/lib/lint/llib-port.ln     declarations for portable functions
        !           171: .br
        !           172: /usr/lib/lint/llib-port        human readable . . .
        !           173: .br
        !           174: llib-l*.ln     library created with
        !           175: .B \-C
        !           176: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           177: cc(1)
        !           178: .br
        !           179: S. C. Johnson,
        !           180: .I Lint, a C Program Checker
        !           181: .SH BUGS
        !           182: There are some things you just
        !           183: .B can't
        !           184: get lint to shut up about.
        !           185: .PP
        !           186: /*NOSTRICT*/
        !           187: is not implemented in the current version (alas).

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