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Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] by sumalamana on Sunday December 07, 2025 @07:27PM (#46186929)
Why would the compiler do that, instead of just printing the error at compile-time and exiting with a non-zero value? What is the benefit?
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Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] by j16sdiz on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:40PM (#46188398)
It is more a debug/development feature. You can try out some idea without fixing the whole code base.
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Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] by dnautics on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:45AM (#46193620)
if you have a syntax error in file A, and file B is just peachy keen, you can keep compiling file B instead of stopping the world. Then the next time you compile, you have already cached the result of file B compilation.
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