https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50402
--- Comment #8 from Vittorio Zecca <zeccav at gmail dot com> --- 1) Sometimes error reports slip through the cracks, it happened to me, and I found it's good to remind that the bug is still around. Sometimes it happened the contrary, the bug silently disappears but the error report is still open. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 2) At least I got an answer from you, that an error would be better than an ICE, this is obvious to me but not to everybody, it also influences the credibility of a product, a crashing product is less credible than a product issuing error messages.