----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: William "Chops"Westfield Betreff: Re: [Mspgcc-users] Use of mspgcc* in critical production environment
>> The problem is that there are too many new bugs in mspgcc4, so I >> cannot switch from >> mspgcc3 to 4 without need to validate (and most likely fix) all of >> our already tested firmware once again. > If the compiler were perfect, it would be uncovering bugs in YOUR code > that would need fixing and validation as well :-( No, it would compile the program from a plain feature/wish list without neet to write (buggy) code first. But then, I would be superfluous and without job (well, the compiler cannot design hardware, so I still had a job, but only half of my current one) Hmmm, I dimly remember having that sort of compiler once on the C64, called 'the last one'. It had an UI where you entered the flowchart and then the calculations and output masks and it produced a basic program that did exactly what you described. Without need of writing a single line of code. Well, that was some 20 years ago on a 64k ram 1MHz system. Sometimes I don't wonder anymore that the Romans had brain surgery and the old Egypts probably have had batteries. > (Just waded through 7M of diffs that were mostly to make a new > compiler happy... > Like "unsigned char *foo = (unsigned char > *)function_that_returns_ptr_to_signed_char();" Look slike the previous compiler wasn't properly throwing warnings/doing typechecks - or the warnings were dactivated. I one had a co-programmer who thought that everything that is not an error would be okay. :( > grr. :) JMGross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
