From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <57329444939968a7a5937851ed647941@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: programming style under Plan9?? From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:20:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 32fdb474-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>all of /src has been made with -T, as forsyth mentioned, it found >>a few small problems. it found a few big ones in some things not on sources, which in a sense helped to justify it even for statically-linked programs. to be fair to C, they all required some violation of the `.h' declaration discipline, but they happened. on the other hand, some other -T diagnostics turn up (even with things in /src) when a .h changes but this or that .$O or .a has not been recompiled, to discover a ulong -> uvlong change for instance. of course, that's a violation of mkfile discipline, but it's comforting to know that such oversights are detected mechanically at ?l time.