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From: John Reagan <johnrreagan@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: New VSI blog post
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:01:07 -0400
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On 7/31/2024 8:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/31/2024 4:44 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On 7/30/2024 7:59 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> All of the above is bad in some ways.
>>>
>>> Dont't ignore warnings, always include .h in implementing
>>> .c, never use old style declarations without arguments and
>>> don't mix VMS C and Clang C.
>>>
>>> But bad things has been seen out in the big world.
>>
>> And don't forget that /STANDARD=VAXC will cover up a ton of bad code
> 
> :-(
> 
> Maybe time to add this to the C compiler.
> 
>        subroutine revenge
>        character*80 std
>        character*256 fnm
>        integer*4 stdlen, fnmlen
>        integer*4 cli$present
>        if(iand(cli$present('STANDARD'),1).eq.1) then
>          call cli$get_value('STANDARD', std, stdlen)
>          if(std(1:stdlen).eq.'VAXC') then
>            call cli$get_value('FILE', fnm, fnmlen)
>            call lib$delete_file(fnm(1:fnmlen), '.c')
>          endif
>        end if
>        end
> 
> :-) :-) :-)
> 
> My apologies for being in Fortran mood instead of Pascal mood.
> 
> Arne
> 
Early on, I wanted to get rid of /STANDARD=VAXC.  It is used on the C 
modules inside the Macro compiler.  I modified the build script to 
remove it.  A single module then got over 600 warnings (about 575 due to 
the same type mismatch that really wasn't a problem).  So I as I tell 
others: "Put the rock back down and back away slowly"