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MDBG file to contain all sources including header files

Add an option to capture all sources to the MDBG file to encourage users to adopt the one-step compile approach for compiling C programs that contain embedded SQL, CICS commands, EXEC SQL INCLUDE and header file includes.
almost 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Delivered

Un objet classe n'est pas autoris? dans les unions.

Au niveau de la documentation :(IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V12.1)anonunion | noanonunionControls the members that are allowed in anonymous unions. When thedefault, -qlanglvl=anonunion, is in effect, anonymous unions can havemembers of all types that ...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Add option to reduce error from severe to warning when using -qcheck compiler option

We'd like a way to be able to reduce a particular error from Severe to a Warning so that compiles will proceed. SAS is interested in using the XL C/C++ compiler option -qcheck=bounds; however, SAS has a lot of legitimate legacy code that trips ove...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Delivered

Provide option to disable -q'info' warnings for system headers.

XL C/C++ will issue many warnings about poor coding constructs in the xlc and AIX system header files. This makes it difficult to find warnings about our custom code and prevents usage of -qhalton for errors we deem important. Obviously, it would ...
almost 12 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Use of trigraphs in C++ Standard Library headers prevents disabling their use in custom code.

xlC -q'notrigraph' impossible to use in any program using C/C++ Standard Library headers. The IBM XL C/C++ headers use trigraphs. This is an archaic feature that we want to not allow in our source code. Unfortunately, use of -q'notrigraph' is not ...
almost 12 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 4 Delivered

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