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

[John Reagan]

On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 2:05:59 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/13/2021 2:00 PM, 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.
> Those wanting to cheat could use GNU Cobol to translate 
> Cobol to C and then compile the C code with CLang. 
> 
> Arne

Makes it hard to debug