Re: Erroneous diagnostic from VOS 'C' compiler?

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From: Ronald C. McFarland
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 15:19

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Ian Cargill <ian@soliton.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <DFBq4o.FED@polo.demon.co.uk> john@polo.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>>The VOS (Stratus) 'C' compiler generates an error on encountering
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>the following code and refuses to compile it, complaining that the
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>curly brackets are superfluous.  Is it broken?
>>
>>int an_array [1] = {1} ;
>
>
>Yes, it's broken. [...]

But, notice that it is broken because it "refuses to compile it", *not*
because it "generates an error".  The compiler is allowed to issue any
diagnostics that it wants to as long as it correctly translates the
program.  You may want to look again.  If the compiler is correctly
translating the line in question then the diagnostic can be ignored.
Of course, I don't think much of the quality of a compiler which issues
diagnostics like the one described above.

-- 
Ron McFarland
rcm@interramp.com

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