Re: Help wanted: compile error detection

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Martin Wilck wrote:

> > > I have come across one compiler that returns an exit status of 0
> > > if compile errors occur :-{
> > 
> > Does it generate an object file?  If not, we could just add a test for
> > the existence of the object file to tell whether compilation succeeded
> > or not.
> 
> It doesn't - that should work.

I've seen some compilers generate a zero-length (or nearly-zero ;-)
object file on error.  (no, I don't recall which ones)

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