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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The complete lack of error reporting in the compiler is a surprise though.

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

True, that is surprising and makes everything worse. It's probably controlled by a setting that none of those engineers knows how to change, based on the lack of knowledge described here.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My guess is that a stack trace is being generated, but something further down the chain is consuming it, realizes there's an error, and just throws -1 instead of the stack trace itself.

Something like

try {
    compileThisDamnProgram()
} catch Exception {
    return -1
}

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