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Re: C constant expressions proposals

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

It's the job of the front end to reject invalid code and pass down valid code to the next level. It's the jobs of the compiler to pass only valid code to the assembler unless there is something invalid an asm statement or similar.

I strongly agree. 

In fact, I consider all diagnostic outputs other than "internal error",
"out of memory", etc. from anything other than the front end to be bugs. :-)

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