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- From: Ignatius <i-wong@wiu.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Borland or MS???
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:10:36 +0000
- Organization: Western Illinois University
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- Larry Baker wrote:
- >
- > Would you oblige me (and I presume other interested readers)
- > by Generating a "simple" MDI "file editor" client using MSVC,
- > then compiling it under BC5, then running it, all the while
- > keeping a log of the errors, etc.? (I'd do this, but I haven't
- > received my copy of BC5 yet).
-
- Yes. I'll spend some time with some samples instead of generating
- an app and email the output to you. Posting more than 200 lines of
- warnings is simply a waste of bandwidth.
-
- > Make sure that the warnings et al reported by BC5 are not spurious.
- > Using Purify or Bounds-Checker can validate this, or by tracing
- > through the calls for one of the reported errors to be sure that
- > t's correct. I'd want to be sure I trusted CodeGuard before I
- > made any sweeping decisions like that.
-
- What constitutes "spurious"? Declaring a variable without using
- it is sloppiness. How about "possibly incorrect assignment"
- within a test condition? What's spurious is a valuable alert
- to another. I choose to look thru every possible warning.
-
- Does asking for suggestions and opinions constitute a sin? No
- sweeping decisions had been averred, only question and solicitation.
-
- # ig
-