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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-21, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Depends on what kind of listing file you want.

If it's one with the generated assembly code included, I sometimes
need that when doing bare metal work, but I just get that by using
the objdump utility.This works just fine because it's usually just
a section of the generated code I need to look at anyway.

Simon.

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