How to suppress Solaris lint warning in C in the code

Question

I need to be able to suppress lint warnings on specific lines of C code, and I would like to do this with in-line directives. This is for a very large body of legacy code that I am porting to 64 bit, and I'd much rather put the directives in the code than in the Makefile that runs lint, as the latter is quite obscure.

The problem is that Solaris lint documentation specifies how to do this for only a few warning types (as far as I can tell).

In the past, the following form was used and the Solaris documentation suggests that this is still allowed, but it doesn't seem to work. Complicating the issue is that the Solaris lint does not give error numbers, but rather uses identifiers like E_CAST_INT_TO_SMALL_INT.

Here is the old way (and there are lots of these in the code already):

/*line -e511*/

Answer 1

Described in Lint Directives Section at this link

There are two inline ways to suppress lint warnings for a single line of code - the old way and the recommended new way.

The old way is to use a LINTED comment: /*LINTED*/

The new way is to use a lint macro: NOTE(LINTED (msg))

The new way also requires including note.h.