C coding and Syntax errors

Hi Jevgeni

Thanks for the info.

I actually got hold of Paul Contes book, thanks Marc.
Common Sense C - Advice & Warnings for C and C++ Programmers
(Publisher: 29th Street Press)
I found it really helpful and although written in 1992 it has
already answered an number of issues I have been having.
(also Pauls book has a solution for the == problem)

I appreciate your offer to help , in my original email I did show
the code I was struggling with.

Thanks to everyone else who replied. I am back on track.


Regards
Frank

date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:03:06 +0000
from: Jevgeni Astanovski <Jevgeni.Astanovski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [C400-L] C coding and Syntax errors

Frank,
if your question was simply "How do C programmers cope with compiler error

messages?"

Then an answer will be "Mostly well".

From my experience there is only one class of errors that sometimes cause

trouble.

That is missing parenthesis - either one of these "()" or "{}".
In this case you normally get an error message pointing to a row in you

programm

well below the place where actual error was.
This is obvious for all "free-form" languages where a statement can take

more

than 1 row and there can be more than one statement in one row.
Such syntax errors did not happen in Fortran or PL/I in the time of

punched cards.

Then, of course that are troubles that do not cause syntax errors.
That is mostly statements like
if (a = b)
.....
Sometimes I have to call someone else to look at my code,
because I just do not see that there is only one "equal"
sign instead of two. And as a result you get an unexplainable program

behaviour.

If you have some particular question - you cannot understand what

this or that error message mean in this particular situation -
I personally will be happy to help you - as much as I can.

But as far as you place a general question, you get a discussion instead

of an answer...

Jevgeni


date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:05:22 +0000
from: Jevgeni Astanovski <Jevgeni.Astanovski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [C400-L] C++ Compiler on IBM i

Looked at the licensed programs, yes, they are different options:

Licensed Product
Program Option Description
5770WDS 51 ILE C
5770WDS 52 ILE C++

That is they can be installed separately.>

GO LICPGM, option 10.