Suggestion for new keywords in bugzilla

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Thu May 22 18:21:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> missing-diagnostic (There should be a warning, but there isn't.)
> misleading-diagnostic (There's a warning which shouldn't be there, or 
> should be replaced by a different warning.)

FWIW, in GNATS rejects-legal and accepts-illegal were sometimes overloaded
to refer to wrong warnings on correct code and warnings that would be
desirable even if the code wasn't actually invalid per the standard.  
With new keywords we can be more specific and avoid this overloading.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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