From: Ronald DOT Pijnacker AT best DOT ms DOT philips DOT com (Ronald Pijnacker)
Subject: Re: Object file after compile error
7 Apr 1998 07:03:12 -0700
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To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Ronald DOT Pijnacker AT best DOT ms DOT philips DOT com

> >Hi,
> >
> >when there is an error in compiling a file I still get an
> >object-file (and thus also a library with errors!). Is this a known
> >problem?
> >My system is WinNT 4.0 with cygwinb19 and gcc 2.8.1.
> 
> Is it an error or a warning?  Warnings tend to be nonfatal.  All 
> warnings are not non-harmful though.

They are real errors, such as missing header files(!). The compiler
still continues (with a lot of errors because it misses information)
and leaves an object file.

 Ronald Pijnacker
 rhp AT iname DOT com
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