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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [Exim-dev] Code quality measurements and automated checks
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> The pointer to this I was given said
>         Various print format warnings from someone with a real facist
>         intel compiler. They all look harmless bugs but the ones I
>         sampled are still there.


I looked at these yesterday. Out of 6 reports, 4 were genuine bugs and 2
seemed to be bugs in the compiler. :-)

> We obviously need to fix this specific problem,


Done in the next release for the 4.

> So we need:-
>       * Some form of lint or other facist checker


I run gcc with as many warnings turned on as I dare; I used also to
compile with the Irix compiler (which gave different warnings) but I no
longer have access to that. I also use Sun's compiler. These find lots
of lint, but obviously not all of it...

Philip

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