Re: Another ammunition

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 812 bytes --]


"Eric G. Miller" <egm2.NOSPAM@jps-NOSPAM.net> a �crit dans le message news: IpfQ9.4953
> > It took a week to understand what was happenning. Would not have passed the
> > first compilation in Ada. FWIW...
>
> You're right, but I'm sure gcc could have immediately diagnosed the
> problem had you turned up the warnings ("conflicting types for...", "previous
> declaration of ...").
>
Warnings were on, he just overlooked them....
That's what makes a huge difference between a warning which is up to the good will of the compiler (and the programmer paying
attention to it), and a *required* compile time error!

(count that as another moral of the story).

--
---------------------------------------------------------
           J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr