Re: [QUERY] A "ignorant newbie" question about compiler-writing.

"J. Kanze" <kanze@gabi-soft.fr>
30 Jan 1997 22:33:49 -0500

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From: "J. Kanze" <kanze@gabi-soft.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:33:49 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-01-013 97-01-236 <32F073A6.1975@phidani.be>
Keywords: performance, practice

J. Kanze wrote:
  > > What makes it hard(er) is that the programmers don't cooperate. If
  > > you accept that the compiler just aborts after the first error, it
  > > will be a lot simpler. Of course, I'd never buy such a compiler:-).
>
Darius Blasband writes:
  > Well, I remember using Turbo Pascal 3.0, and it was quite a usable product,
  > for reasonably sized projects. [ because it was so fast, even though it
  > didn't do any error recovery]


Excellent remark. If the turn around time is fast enough, it is
preferable to get one correct error message, that a number which may
or may not be correct. (Turn around time or no, I tend to ignore most
errors following the first one in C++, because almost any error seems
to get the compiler so confused that the rest are worthless anyway.)


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