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Re: Is this a gcc bug?


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 dewar@gnat.com wrote:

> So the question is, should an error message like this try to educate,
> or just take the simple minded non-determinstic viewpoint.

The manual already documents sequence points (under -Wsequence-point) -
perhaps error messages that might confuse should reference the manual
rather than attempting to do their own education within the constraints of
an error message of reasonable length?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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