cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
lint(1) is a utility used to perform various checks on source code. All new code in OpenSolaris must be ``lint-clean,'' meaning that lint's checks on the code do not result in any warnings. This process of checking with lint(1) is known as linting.
Absorbent fluff that has been incorporated within a textile.
The cotton fibre obtained by the ginning process once the cotton seed, leaves and casing have been removed.
n. A program written by Steve Johnson as companion to his pcc, for performing cross-file and other error checking not normally performed by C compilers. The name supposedly derives from the bits of fluff it picks from programs. vt. To check a program with lint.
A software development tool used to check C and C++ programs for error-prone syntactical constructs. The C and C++ language standards are loosely written. Plenty of run-time details, such as the actual size of an int, are left up to compiler implementers. Lint can help you find dangerous and nonportable constructs in your code before a compiler turns them into run-time bugs. [ more] The error-prone syntactical constructs that the lint tool finds in C and C++ programs. A program that passes through the lint tool without generating any warnings is termed "lint-free."
A UNIX program that can detect bugs, portability problems, and other possible errors in C programs.
