[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[Bob Koehler]

In article <o0qf7m$k2l$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> 
> Today modern compilers and debugging practices that came into existence
> in the 1970s and 1980s make listings far less important and one of those 
> things is forcing explicit declarations.

   Many of today's "modern" compilers simply won't generate a listing
   for code that has some fairly common compile errors.  Which makes
   figuring out the error using listing features impossible, and can leave
   you wandering around in a I tried A, I tried B, ..., action.