From 22d060d461a04e51825f234d291580659dd22dc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vern Paxson Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:58:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documenting poor run-time error messages --- src/script_opt/CPP/README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/script_opt/CPP/README.md b/src/script_opt/CPP/README.md index b6c2a0c310..789a260734 100644 --- a/src/script_opt/CPP/README.md +++ b/src/script_opt/CPP/README.md @@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ Known Issues Here we list various known issues with using the compiler:
+* Run-time error messages generally lack location information and information +about associated expressions/statements, making them hard to puzzle out. +This could be fixed, but would add execution overhead in passing around +the necessary strings / `Location` objects. + * Compilation of compiled code can be noticeably slow (if built using `./configure --enable-debug`) or hugely slow (if not), with the latter taking on the order of an hour on a beefy laptop. This slowness complicates