Re: new parser: error recovery needs work

["Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Edwards" <phil@jaj.com>
To: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps@hotmail.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: new parser: error recovery needs work


> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:08:30AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> > (I think i heard something about carat errors being on
> > the way,
>
> They are.
>
> >just wanting to err suggest that they make it into 3.4)
>
> That will only happen if lots of people help make it happen.  Are you
> volunteering?  :-)  It's not like the code is finished and waiting on a
> managerial decision.
*chuckle* - well as always I'm interested in volunteering, whether i'll
actually end up doing anything - thats a different story.  My interest to
effort conversion engine is rather inefficient
Is there a branch/somewhere this is being worked on?
>
>
> > or something at least.  A tool which could look up
> > the documentation just by passing it the text of an error message ...
would
> > be nice too.
>
> You really don't want to rely on the text of an error message not changing
> over time.  For this kind of thing to work, we need error messages to have
> numbers (like every other compiler does, and with reason).

Well either that or expect people who change error messages to update the
documentation :P
not like that would happen...

Gareth