He certainly did, but it did help him find quite a few issues in the code. I did something similar with my large C code base - compiled it as C++ and went and

He certainly did, but it did help him find quite a few issues in the code. I did something similar with my large C code base - compiled it as C++ and went and looked at all the issues thrown up. It helped me find quite a few subtle bugs that would have been very hard to spot otherwise.