rfc: __builtin_syntax_error

[Timothy J. Wood]

On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 05:01  PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:54:17PM -0800, Timothy J. Wood wrote:
>> And on platforms that don't report the line number of the reference to 
>> the
>> symbol (like Darwin), you'd have no idea where the problem came from.
>
> Is this better or worse than a runtime abort with no information 
> whatsoever?

   Better in that you get immediate notification that there is the 
problem.
   Worse in that I can set a breakpoint on abort().


-tim