Minor exception bug with unexpected

Arvind Sankar arvind@cse.iitb.ernet.in
Fri Mar 20 03:22:00 GMT 1998


On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 03:07:32AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Not an overkill, it's useful for debugging.  If the program just
> exit()s, you won't be able to know why it did so.  However, if it
> abort()s, you just have to use a debugger to look at the core file and 
> you'll know why.

following up on this, should there be an option to the compiler to make
it dump core on an internal compiler error, so that somebody can make
out what went wrong?

-- arvind



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