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Hello, everybody!
We noticed that if we set `flag_syntax_only' after the first
error, compilation of the remaining (errorneous) source file
speeds up significantly (and finds possible other errors in the
file much faster).
Since this is a rather trivial change I wonder why it is not
done in GCC (at least not in egcs-1.1.1).
(In fact parts of the effect of `flag_syntax_only' seem to be
done since compilation _does_ speed up a little after the first
error, but not as drastically as with `--syntax-only'.)
Peter
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