lclint-interest message 176

From evans@cs.virginia.edu Wed Nov  5 20:55:12 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 97 20:51:40 -0500
From: evans@cs.virginia.edu (David Evans)
To: lclint-interest@larch.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: j.p.litherland@bradford.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: Patrick Litherland's message of Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:25:55 +0000 (GMT) 
Subject: Subscription request


> I'm suddenly getting the feeling I may be out of my depth in this group,
> though, so I'm going to keep my head down under the parapet for a while... 

Not to worry...this list ranges from beginning student programmers to
formal methods researchers to experiences developers, and
questions/comments/complaints from beginners are certainly welcome.  

I think I may have intimidated people from posting to this list with the
welcome message which focuses more on the academic side of things than
on making this list a resource for people using lclint.  I don't want
this to degenerate into a forum for general C language questions (as
there are much better places to do this already, like
comp.lang.c.moderated), but this list has been very quiet lately and
only about 10% of subscribers have ever posted anything.

I've attached the current welcome message to this message.  Any
suggestions on what would be a more appropriate charter for this list?

Thanks,

--- Dave

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	how is your organization using lclint?
	how much effort spent on annotations (or specifications) is
           useful in practice?
	what ways of using lclint are most effective?
	which checks are most effective in catching real bugs?
	are spurious messages a problem?
	  
   o Ideas for improvements to lclint ---
	what checks should be done that are not?
	what should be added to enable further checking?
	what coding styles should be supported?

   o More general discussions on the role of specifications and
	static checking in software engineering.

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