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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:24:00 +0100
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On 2/8/11 9:48 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> I wish they were collected in some unbiased public wiki,
>> together with a kind of cost analysis, metaphorical or real,
>> of the observed effects. Wouldn't this be a nice addition
>> to the Style Guide? A chapter on Bug Avoidance Techniques (BAT)?.
>
> Look at MISRA-C to see what BAT does to C. And then again, look at
> Ada and compare how many of these rules could are applicable to Ada
> at all.

I know ;-)  Suppose pclint -w4 were built into every C compiler.
What effects would this change likely have on program production?
The skeptic's view:

- more annoyed programmers
- clever ways of working around compilers
- pride issues

I guess it isn't that bad?