barnes@Xylogics.COM (Jim Barnes) (08/15/89)
I am trying to run lint on some software that I have inherited and have run into a problem with some structures containing bit fields. Whenever lint encounters one of the bit fields, it gives an error "illegal field type". The only way I have discovered to get around this error is to conditionally (#ifdef-#else-#endif) define the bit fields and then run lint with a flag that does not define any of the bit fields. Question: Is there some other way to get lint to accept bit fields? (We are running SUN OS 4.0.) Please respond via email. Thanks in advance for your help. ---- Jim Barnes (barnes@Xylogics.COM)