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Re: What does "internal error #20000524"?
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:50:04AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:08:05PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > >
> > > What do we gain by using the my_friendly_abort() macro vs. doing
> > > just a plain abort() and getting the same "Internal compiler error"
> > > messages in the C part of gcc?
> >
> > In my opinion, not much, and new code should use plain abort().
>
> The advantage of my_friendly_abort is that the user gets an indication
> of the point in his/her code where the compiler blew up. Often it is
> possible to work around the compiler bug by rewriting the code at that
> point in the program.
These days, plain abort does that too.
zw