[Bug libstdc++/15910] can't compile self defined void distance(std::vector<T>, std::vector<T>)

[Andrew Pinski]

On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:41 PM, adah at netstd dot com wrote:

>
> Passing this information to the user is difficult, unless GCC emits a
> diagnostic message to help users do so, as GCC is currently doing on 
> the
> missing of `typename'.

even then as I said before when it comes down to it, nobody reads those
messages as they think their code is correct.

See my example when sequence points, we do warn about it in 4.0.0 and 
above
(for C++; for C, we have warned since at least 3.0.4) and people still 
file bugs.

Another example of where people don't read is the changes page, which 
describes
changes to the compiler which could hinder (or benefit) them.  One 
example is
the change in the namelookup for templates to be more towards the 
standard.  That
example shows that we still get bug reports so even with a better error 
message,
people will have something to complain about.

-- Pinski