• HiddenLayer555English
    3·
    1 day ago

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

    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 day 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.

      • HiddenLayer555English
        1·
        1 day 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
}