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ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp writes:

| May I suggest one neat idea?
| 
| Instead of making the compiler just say " Internal compiler error:
| program cc1 got fatal signal 4", why don't we incorporate a few more
| sentences so that the output would look like the following? This
| should save RMS and others much time in trying to educate the C
| programmers who try to report bugs, and yet fail to follow the proper
| procedures.
| 
| Suggested message:
| 
| xgcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4
|       Please follow the instructions in the "Bugs" chapter of the GCC
|       manual and report the remaining problem by a proper bug report.
|       The format and contents of a proper bug report and the e-mail
|       address is found in the  aforementioned manual chapter.

It is not documented, but you can compile GCC with -Dabort=fancy_abort
and it will just issue an internal compiler error message and not drop
core.

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