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

Gabriel Dos Reis Gabriel.Dos-Reis@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr
Fri Mar 6 05:40:00 GMT 1998


>>>>> «Alexandre», Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:

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

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

	Indeed. But IMO it is a good idea to cite _references_ in the
Standard (as does the Workshop, but better).

-- Gaby



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