-proceedOnError option (like ECJ) ?

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Mon Nov 25 11:54:18 UTC 2024


I was about to suggest a similar thing. E.g. use a custom compiler step 
to "fix up" the AST before it gets to the backend.

Maurizio

On 24/11/2024 12:05, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> It may be much simpler to fix the AST by replacing the erroneous parts 
> with the exceptions at the boundary between the front-end and the 
> back-end, hence the back-end would only work on AST which represents 
> non-erroneous code. This is actually what NetBeans is doing (both in 
> the current, and historical implementation of this feature).


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