On 28 March 2012 07:53, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > In article <20120327202907.gt26...@bigmac.stderr.spb.ru>, > Valeriy E. Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote: >> >>But that is not what the code was. The code was: >> >> char c; if (c == CHAR_MAX) ... >> >>and *that* is portable. As I said in another mail to thsi thread that >>went unanswered, it is literally schizophrenic of lint to complain >>about it. > > How can lint know that if (c == 255) is portable? Because CHAR_MAX > gets expanded by cpp to 255 before lint parses the file. >
(How) does the compiler (not) catch this one ? -- ~Cherry
