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z/TPF APAR PJ46531 updates the z/TPF product to be compatible with Dignus V2.25.
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One feature that I'd like to use is “static asserts”.
When the –fc11 option is enabled, the compiler supports the ANSI C11 Static assert declaration. This declaration is used to accomplish a compile-time assertion, that if false, causes an error message. A Static assert declaration has the syntax: Static assert ( constant-expression , string-literal ) ; Where constant-expression is a compile-time integral constant expression, and stringliteral is a compile-time string literal. The compiler will evaluate the constant-expression, if it has the value 0 then an error message is produced that includes the text from string-literal. For example: _Static_assert( sizeof(int) == 4, "sizeof(int) must be 4"); will produce a compile-time error diagnostic if the size of int is not 4.
Shouldn't it be our policy to use relatively current versions of program products including the Dignus C & C++ compilers? Seems IBM is saying that the only reason to move to a newer compiler is because there's a particular feature in that new version that's not available in the currently in use version. If that was the case, we'd never upgrade to a new version. We'd always find a work around for that feature because it takes too long to wait ‘till a new version is approved and installed.