[Info-vax] listings (Re: C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0))

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/10/19 12:54 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

> 1) Compiler listings:
> 
> How many of you actually _use_ the listings and how do you use them ?

I work with some code that is very macro-heavy, and if I don't have a
listing created with /SHOW=EXPANSION, I really can't do any debugging of
it.  Without seeing the expanded versions right next to the macros they
came from, it's often difficult to guess what variables to examine in
the debugger.

> People on other systems seem to manage just fine without listings
> so why are they still needed in 2019 on VMS ?

cc -E does at least some of the same things, and people most certainly
do use it.