[dmd-internals] Bugzilla keyword suggestions

[Walter Bright]

On 1/31/2012 3:54 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> Is it possible to change the keyword descriptions?
> I would like:
> xfail  - "Obsolete - Don't use this"
> ice-on-invalid-code  - "Obsolete - Don't use this"
> ice-on-valid-code   "Internal compiler error (assert failure,
> segfault, or stack overflow)"

xfail is unused and should just be deleted, I'll do that.

phobos is unused and is redundant to the product category, and so should be 
deleted. I'll do that.

ice-on-* should all be merged into "ice", which should include all compiler 
internal errors and seg faults. I'll add ice.

I'd like to be parsimonious about just creating a bunch of new keywords. I've 
added a couple, but only because I wanted to work on a particular aspect.

> The reason being, that in almost all case, invalid code is valid is
> some context, so there's really no difference between ice-on-valid and
> ice-on-invalid, and people get confused about which one to use.
> (ideally, change all ice-on-invalid to ice-on-valid, remove
> ice-on-invalid completely, and rename ice-on-valid as simply "ice" --
> but simply changing the description would be an improvement).
> xfail comes from dstress and has never been used.
>
> Extra keywords that could be added:
> inliner     bug appears only if -inline is used
> optimizer  bug appears only with -O
> line-number  error message with incorrect or missing line number
> parser   bug occurs in lexing or parsing step
> 64bit    bug shows different behavior on 64bit vs 32bit
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