[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Andrew Shaw]

On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:18:03 AM UTC+10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> Lint used to point
> out a lot of potential problems but I knew few people other
> than myself who ever actually used it.  If the compiler
> lets it bad code will continue to come out of the mill.

I almost always use lint or I add more picky flags to whatever compiler I am using when building something that needs to run in a Production environment. 
I want to explore as many avenues of potential failure as I can before I deploy
my code as I've already had way too many alarms go off at 3am (I don't know 
whose law it is that says that code will only break at the most inconvenient time.) I still have nightmares of my pager (pre mobile phone era) going off at 3am meaning I had an hour to investigate and fix some anomalous ACMS runtime issue.

I want my code to break in Dev before I send it anywhere. I don't always get that !