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From: jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why I don't use the newer Lattice compilers
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Date: 13 Apr 89 16:36:41 GMT
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In article <5239@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugkamins@sunybcs.UUCP (John Kaminski) writes:
>I think I'm way back at 3.5 or something.  One of my friends let me program
>with his upgraded compiler and I kept on getting warning: function return
>value mismatch for stuff like main 'cuz I didn't declare it as returning
>void.  Gimmie a break!  If I wanted a lint-y compiler, I would toss my disk
<....stuff deleted.....>

Interesting. You are willing to give up a global optimizer, a symbolic
debugger, an integrated editor, a make utlity, precompiled header files,
pragmas for library calls, support for making resident programs, support
for getting traces from abending programs, a profiler, etc. all because
you don't want to see warning messages? Are you aware that there is a switch
for turning off warning messages from the compiler? Are you aware that
warning messages do not prevent the compiling and linking from continuing?
I usually ignore warning messages, probably not a good thing to do, but if
they bothered me that much I would just set the switch (don't have my manual
at hand or I would elaborate).