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How could there be? There are no standard machines.
Some of them will catch things like using pointers to free'd memory, and constructs like "if(a=b)".
A good lint will check many things in C across files. Some are available that support ANSI headers & types.
Of course, this is a religious question, not a technical one. There was a thread about this somewhere a month or two ago that came to no conclusion. But, to put my two cents worth in… If the compiler will check types, let it do so whether you encode the…