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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: machine generated code and chatty compilers
Keywords: machine generated C code
Message-ID: <1420@sas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 90 17:45:45 GMT
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Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1471@mdbs.UUCP> wsmith@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith) writes:
|People are not the only entities that generate code for C or C++ compilers.

However, they *do* write most of them (maybe not most code, but surely
most programs).  So a good complier should be fairly chatty, especially to
help the poor inocents who are just getting started with C.  Then it should
be easy to turn off the chatiness, both on a single-message basis and by
turning off the whole shootin' match of questionable messages.  Those in
the know will have the werewithall to set up aliases which turn off these
messages all the time; babes in the woods will be saved much grief.

[Lattice compilers, for one (on the Amiga, at least) come pretty close
meeting this ideal, BTW.]  CLAIMER:  I work for Lattice's parent company,
so I may not be objective.
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