problem in gcc (lib) headers __BEGIN_DECLS & traceback-incomplete

[L A Walsh]

Jonathan Wakely wrote:
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> No, it would be better to just improve the diagnostics using some heuristics.
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	That would be ideal.  I was suggesting something that
might be easier to diagnose, but if it can be done 
using a heuristic, that would obviously be better.


> 
> Simply issuing an error whenever a block isn't closed before a header
> would not be conforming, but when the compilation fails anyway the
> compiler could check if it happened and say something about it in the
> errors.
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	Absolutely.  If it is going to generate an error anyway,
the the code is "obviously" non-conforming, so conforming-only 
behavior is no longer the point.