Gary . wrote:

> Yeah. There are static checkers out there, even some FOSS ones. I
> guess I'm just a bit frustrated that (as you say) the man page says
> that "-l" checks syntax but doesn't really detail what kind of things
> that covers. 

It really is _only_ the syntax. Same goes for e.g. the C lint - 

int main()
{
   char *p;

   p=0;
   *p=0;
}

this is 100% syntactically correct, but will core dump if you run it. 


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (24.2°C)


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