Re: [PATCH] fix Objective-C, further improve error recovery for unknown type names

[IainS <developer at sandoe-acoustics dot co dot uk>]

On 14 Nov 2010, at 11:08, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > > > indeed, we should not be doing that....
> > > > ... clang is the de-facto 'standard'  I guess ...
> >
> > > Yes, but we don't really want to be bug compatible with them, if we
> > > think they got it wrong.  One can always file a bug report against
> > > clang, if they want to know for sure.
> >
> > In this instance, it seems to me that clang is doing it right ...
>
> I agree that clang is doing it right in this instance [and our  
> compiler
> needs more work ;-)]; I think Mike was not commenting on this  
> particular case,
> but just giving general guidelines on how to approach differences.

I read it that way - but also am interested in his view on this  
specific case, in case we missed something...

> And I agree with his guidelines; we obviously want to be very  
> compatible,
> but if they get something wrong (not in this case) we don't  
> necessarily need
> to be faithfully reproducing obvious bugs. :-)

completely agreed ... (although Darwin might end up needing a '- 
mcompat=apple' :/ )

Where does this leave us with the 'fix' to the current FE?
cheers
Iain