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

[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>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.

I'm not sure what your argument is here.  Modern compilers don't actually
generate listing files at all for the most part, because nobody really needs
them in the modern IDE world.  It's probably been 20 years since I have seen
a listing file on a modern system.

What compiler are you using that generates a listing file but doesn't include
compile-time errors?
--scott
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