[dmd-internals] Bugzilla keyword suggestions

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 31 11:25:12 PST 2012


Here's the list:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/editkeywords.cgi

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)"
>
> 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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