At 12:04 PM 5/3/01 -0500, Sam TH wrote:
>Lots o' patches.  Obviouly, the HP compiler developers need to be
>taken out and shot.  :-)

Maybe so.  :-)

However, rather than form a firing squad, we'd probably be better off 
updating our coding standards so we know not to use any of those problematic 
idioms in the future.  

For example, we already include a reference to the Mozilla team's guide to 
XP-safe coding techniques, but perhaps it should be more prominent:

  http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html

In particular, many of the recommendations listed there help make code safe 
for, you guessed it -- the HP-UX compiler.  ;-)

Our stance to date has been that we *want* to see more compilers grinding 
away on our code because the more of them we can satisfy, the cleaner our 
code will become.  

Paul,
envisioning N versions of lint in parallel

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