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

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Sep 13 14:00:33 EDT 2021


On 2021-09-13, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2021-09-13, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?  
>>
>
> Yes, although I should have expanded on the explicit reference to DEC C.
> Don't you have Fortran code within the VMS code base ?
>

BTW, it looks like you will be bringing the first ever COBOL compiler
to LLVM although I suspect VSI will not be able to release the COBOL
frontend source code.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.



More information about the Info-vax mailing list