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Re: [C++ Patch] PR 68722
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- To: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:16:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: [C++ Patch] PR 68722
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Agreed, I tend not to backport bugs on invalid code, definitely not if
we already give a useful diagnostic.
Jason
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On 12/04/2016 15:53, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>
>> Let's go with the first patch.
>
> What about this one? Today I returned to it, and technically it still
> represents a regression in gcc-4_9-branch and gcc-5-branch, but personally
> I'd rather not backport the fix: in release-mode we just emit an additional
> "confused by earlier errors, bailing out" at the end of a rather long series
> of diagnostic messages, the first ones meaningful, the last redundant anyway
> and the snippet triggering it seems particularly broken to me...
>
> Thanks,
> Paolo.
>