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Re: GNATS policy question
- From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:48:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: GNATS policy question
On 11 Dec, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> What's the GNATS policy about PRs that issue an ICE in development
>> versions and a "confused by earlier errors, bailing out" message in
>> release versions?
>
> We should mark those PRs medium-priority.
>
> GCC simply doesn't have a coherent design for error-recovery, and until
> it does the set of places where we crash after error messages will move
> around from time to time, hopefully shrinking over time. I have ideas
> about this, but not enough time to implement them ...
Shouldn't we suspend those PRs then? We could add "[error-recovery]" to
the synopsis line. Maybe some of the PRs will be fixed with the new
parser, so IMHO we should suspend them till the new parser arrives
anyway before spending too much effort on them.
Regards,
Volker