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Re: Patch for better diagnostic (was: Re: Bug in MI?)

Manfred Hollstein writes:

> That would be even better ;-) But again, what do you think about
> citing the language standard where appropriate?

I don't think that's a good idea, since only a small subset of the g++
users++ do have access to the actual standard.  We'd better try to
produce an error message that's as clear as possible, even for
newbies, so as to try to avoid buggy bug reports.

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Alexandre Oliva
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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