GNATS policy question
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Dec 11 22:33:00 GMT 2002
--On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 05:55:04 PM +0100 Volker Reichelt
<reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> What's the GNATS policy about PRs that issue an ICE in development
> versions and a "confused by earlier errors, bailing out" message in
> release versions?
We should mark those PRs medium-priority.
GCC simply doesn't have a coherent design for error-recovery, and until
it does the set of places where we crash after error messages will move
around from time to time, hopefully shrinking over time. I have ideas
about this, but not enough time to implement them ...
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