GCC 4.2 Status Report (2006-06-16)

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Wed Jul 5 18:37:00 GMT 2006


Mark Mitchell wrote:

> I'm not sure the number above is in and of itself terribly meaningful,
> in part because Volker has been filing many
> ICE-on-invalid-after-error-message PRs against the C++ front end.  These
> don't really even show up for users in releases, due to the "confused by
> earlier errors" trick, so, although I've been marking these as P2, that
> might actually be an overly high priority.  It offends my sensibilities
> that we crash in these cases, but it's hard to argue there's a lot of
> impact on users.

No, I think it's a mistake to prioritize these before bugs that actually 
affect users.  I'd knock them down to P4.

Jason



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