Re: [Dev-C++] possible changes to Dev-C++

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

Luigi Santillo wrote:

> At 15:52 15/05/02 +0200, Hongli Lai wrote:
>
>> Hm... you're right. There's a bug in Dev-C++ parsing code.
>> I'm going to fix it now. The next version will include the bugfix.
>
>
> Here are two small things which could be worth a little attention:
>
> 1. the command "rm" (used to erase files, when making the "clean" 
> target), is not available on old Win98SE, only "del" is implemented 
> there and it expects one argument (so one may erase: a single file or 
> more than one file but only using wildcards).
>
>
> 2. The Execute->Syntax Check, could have an icon so that it may be 
> used more often, and why not consider the command "gcc -c source.c" in 
> place of "gcc -S source.c -o nul"? The former one would generate the 
> object file (if there is no error during the compilation) which would 
> only need to be linked when one cliks on the "Compile" button to build 
> the executable.


That would defeat the purpose of "syntax checking". The syntax checking 
feature is designed
to see if the source code has the correct syntax, not to compile it.
Otherwise, you may just as well use the Compile button.