(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5353) From a colleague

[Van Snyder]

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 19:37 -0600, Dan Nagle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Oct 27, 2014, at 16:55 , Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > And with "support discontinued," how do you revise the code?  Put the
> > burden on the users of the formerly-supported code, I guess.
> > Discontinuing support was penny wise and pound foolish.  Three FTE, as
> > opposed to 600 people randomly fiddling with their private copies.
> 
> Could you please show the actual error message from compiler
> upon encountering the arithmetic if claiming that it cannot be compiled?
> 
> The supplier and version of the compiler would also be helpful
> in evaluating the degree of disaster.

He didn't write that he was getting diagnostics.  He wrote that he "just
learned that at least some compilers will no longer support the
arithmetic IF statement."  I interpret this to mean that he read a press
release (or equivalent) from some compiler producer(s) about future
plans (if indeed arithmetic IF is removed in 2015).

> --
> 
> Cheers!
> Dan Nagle
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