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Re: Suggestion for option
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for option
- From: "RenE J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:09:51 +0200
>opinion, but many do not agree, and this is an old debate, so I will
>not go there). In any case, missing those errors when some other
I had this hunch I was going to stir up old pains... :)
>error has
>already occurred is a small price to pay to make the edit-compile-edit
>cycle faster.
>
>And, we would make the compiler more reliable; there are parts of the RTL
>generation code that tend to choke on erroneous input and it is hard to fix
>all of them. It is easier simply to guarantee that code will be
>valid before it hits the RTL generator.
So then the only discussion remaining is how to name the option and whether
it should be on by default, I guess...
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