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SubjectRe: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

>> > just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or
>> > any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle
>> > guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's
>> > amusing. extra searches happily accepted.
>>
>> I had a bunch of similar greps that I've recently been half-assedly
>> putting together into a single script too.
>> See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/findbugs/
>
> I don't know if anyone cares about them anymore, since I think gcc
> grew some smarts in the area recently, but there are a lot of lines of
> code matching "static int.*= *0;" and equivalents in the driver tree.

I'd really like to see the C compiler being enhanced to detect
"stupid casts", i.e. those, which when removed, do not change (a) the outcome
(b) the compiler warnings/error output.


-`J'
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