Goodbye for lint(1)

[Rui Paulo]

On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 13:20 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> I believe the time has come to remove lint and its libraries from the
> system. I did some manipulations with the mcontext_t/ucontext_t to
> make
> us more POSIX-compatible, and found several things about lint(1)
> which
> cause serious questions about tool usefulness.
> 
> My main point is that the lint processing starts with "cc -E -undef"
> producing the preprocessed source of the linted file or library. The
> -undef switch removes (almost) all predefined symbols, most
> importantly,
> the __<arch>__ and __LP64__ and its variants are dropped.
> 
> Due to this, for the whole 10.x lifetime, since the merge of the i386
> and amd64 MD includes, lint cannot ever correctly work on amd64. The
> same should be true for powerpc, and there headers are more unified
> and
> the effect is less enchanting. Even on i386, since headers other than
> _type.h tend to use #ifdef __i386__/#endif and #ifdef
> __amd64__/#endif,
> lint cannot see a lot of system.
> 
> Nobody complained for 3 (?) years about the tool which clearly
> misfunctioned. I propose to kill it as unused. Modern compilers do
> much
> better job at diagnosing inconsistencies supposedly detected (but
> really
> not) by lint.

Yes, it should've been removed years ago...

-- 
Rui Paulo