Re: gnubol: IBM flags nested conditionals as error (RC=8) but recovers OK

[Michael McKernan <mck@tivoli.mv.com>]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Josling <TIMJOSLING@prodigy.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 06 Dec 1999 22:49:18 +1000

  Tim> Here it is (compilations only). To me this means it is not an
  Tim> extension but good error recovery. Note in the second listing,
  Tim> the not size error binds to the inner add.

  Tim> Tim Josling

Excellent, Tim.  We now have three compilers that give hard errors,
two that accept without warnings and the important one that issues a
severe warning but generates code.  That seems to clear up what the
IBM doc that Bob cited was saying.  I think the IBM method sounds
like good policy.



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