wording of ICE comment (was "Re: committed: gigi clean ups")

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Wed Oct 6 14:57:00 GMT 2004


> >        /* This abort means the entity "gnat_entity" has an incorrect scope,
> >  	 i.e. that its scope does not correspond to the subprogram in which
> >  	 it is declared */
> > -      abort ();
> > +      gcc_unreachable ();
> 
>   Perhaps this comment could be updated as well.

    Agreed. Richard, could you put that on your list ?

Actually, I'm not sure what the issue is.  Is it the use of "this abort"?

If so, I thought about that at the time and believed that "this abort" is a
reasonable terminology for the situation and means the English word "abort"
rather than specifically referring to the function "abort".  I felt that
saying "this call to gcc_unreachable" is needlessly verbose.

But we should have a common convention for the wording, so I thought I'd
raise the issue here.



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