[Info-vax] [OT?] Should compiler warnings be treated as errors ?

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 9:04:00 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> OTOH, going the other way, I wonder if the LLVM compilers (with the 
> normal LLVM frontends instead of hybrid GEM frontend/LLVM backend) 
> will find things in the VMS source code that DEC C might have missed.

Compiler(S) plural?  

Are you asking could we take OpenVMS C source code and run it through the clang 
compiler in "C mode"?  That probably won't work in general as the code often uses 
features not in clang (#pragma linkage, /STANDARD=VAXC, etc.).   There might 
be some C code that doesn't rely on such things that could be compiled with 
"clang-in-C-mode" but I haven't thought that far into the future.