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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
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Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.161426.27685@micrognosis.co.uk>
Date: 2 Jun 91 16:14:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.000558.7777@idi.com>, berry@idi.com (Berry
Kercheval) writes:
|> I'm afraid I'm stuck with the brain I have.  [...] When it causes typos
|> in C programs, the compiler might dump the object file.

Stretching a flawed analogy to breaking point ... As I understand it, the
standards do not mandate that the compiler provide any diagnostics, but I
have never used a C compiler that didn't give some indication that it had
failed to compile the program. A few even give a useful pointer to what's
wrong. On the other hand, I've never seen a compiler mail diagnostics to
the author when someone else tries to compile his/her code :-)

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