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

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 16:43:29 EDT 2021


On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 2:00:36 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-13, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote: 
> > On 2021-09-13, John Reagan <xyzz... 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.
No, somebody else has already done a COBOL.  I've talked to them about DWARF stuff.

However, we might have the first BASIC attached to LLVM.



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