[perl #53682] Cage cleaning: Visual Studio compiler for parrot

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The MS C compiler produces numerous warnings about "not all paths return a
value" or "no return value" when Parrot throws an exception in many of the
functions.  This produces a fair amount of noise when compiling with
warnings turned on.  If the following is added to compiler.h the warnings
are much diminished:

#ifdef _MSC_VER
    /* turn off MSC warnings when exceptions prevent normal value return */
#  pragma warning (disable : 4715)
#  pragma warning (disable : 4716)
#endif

I have attached a version of compiler.h with the addition as well.

I would be happy to fix some of the remaining issues, which are mainly void
pointer conversion warnings and local variable initialization issues, if you
would like

--Bill

• [perl #53682] Cage cleaning: Visual Studio compiler for parrot by William Herrera