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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] compile: set debug compile: Display GCC driver filename
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:36:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] compile: set debug compile: Display GCC driver filename
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:53:46 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> "wrong" is subjective. This split is a conscious design decision,
> that has advantages like insulating the debugger from compiler ICEs.
I haven't looked it up now but IIRC that is not a "conscious design decision"
but just a workaround of buggy GCC which cannot recover/re-run from
compilation errors in the same instance. The ICE resistance was only
a side-effect.
Jan