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[rbowman]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:15:34 GMT, Gilmeh Serda wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:26:20 +0100, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> 
>> numbers for calculations didn't add up.  It went into negative numbers,
>> when that shouldn't have been possible.
> 
> We have all written code that makes us wonder why the compiler even
> bothered with it and didn't give up on the first line.

gcc does have a flag so it will stop on the first error instead of 
wandering around aimlessly spitting out 100 errors because you missed a 
curly bracket. Sometimes it's useful.