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by pjmlp
3400 days ago
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From Dennis himself, https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html The best part for those that care about security: "To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions." So although C designers saw the dangers of C and provided static analysis from the early days, many C developers keep ignoring them. |
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