C constant expressions proposals

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Aug 18 05:30:00 GMT 2004


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

>It's the job of the front end to reject invalid code and pass down valid 
>code to the next level.  It's the jobs of the compiler to pass only valid 
>code to the assembler unless there is something invalid an asm statement 
>or similar.
>
I strongly agree. 

In fact, I consider all diagnostic outputs other than "internal error",
"out of memory", etc. from anything other than the front end to be bugs. :-)

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