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It was already known to Dennis and Ritchie that C without appropriate tooling wasn't an ideal tool, hence why C's history of static analysis goes all the way back to 1979.

Unfortunately, the large majority to this day thinks they don't need such kind of tooling.

"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. 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. "

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html