Re: question about linker

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

In a 39Kloc C codebase, there were 21,500 semicolons.
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This is generated C, so some of those may be following labels!
2000, actually, which still leaves 19,500; a lot of semicolons.
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On a preprocessed sql.c test (to remove comments) there were
53,000 semicolons in 85,000 lines.
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So in C, they are a very big deal, occuring on every other line.

Many years ago I read a book called "How to Lie with Statistics".
It should be updated to add this reporting as an example.