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

[Dave Froble]

On 9/13/2021 4:43 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah, a worthy endeavor ...

But I do hope your statement implies "the first" and not "maybe".


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