William Chops Westfield wrote:

> Listings?  What listings?
>
> I don't know about you, but the times I'm most likely to use a
> compiler
> are where I probably can't analyze the code for correctness anyway (my
>
> major embedded system is 8+M of object code.) <snip..>

Funny, I've written lots of big systems, but I've never counted klocs.
I've never had to read through more than a few k lines of listing for
anything I've written. The big systems get assembled out of the little
chunks.

> We are rather careful about changing compiler versions, however.
> Source
> code control is useful, but if you're careful, you'll do version
> control
> on your entire tool set...

Good point.

--TR