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Re: rfc: __builtin_syntax_error
- From: "Timothy J. Wood" <tjw at omnigroup dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:07:44 -0800
- Subject: Re: rfc: __builtin_syntax_error
On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 05:01 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:54:17PM -0800, Timothy J. Wood wrote:
>> And on platforms that don't report the line number of the reference to
>> the
>> symbol (like Darwin), you'd have no idea where the problem came from.
>
> Is this better or worse than a runtime abort with no information
> whatsoever?
Better in that you get immediate notification that there is the
problem.
Worse in that I can set a breakpoint on abort().
-tim