GNATS policy question

Volker Reichelt reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Dec 12 03:35:00 GMT 2002


On 11 Dec, Mark Mitchell 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 ...

Shouldn't we suspend those PRs then? We could add "[error-recovery]" to
the synopsis line. Maybe some of the PRs will be fixed with the new
parser, so IMHO we should suspend them till the new parser arrives
anyway before spending too much effort on them.

Regards,
Volker




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