[Mono-devel-list] some mcs errors fixes

[Marek Safar]

Hello,

>>>I also have noticed some of the cs8*.cs tests seem to be either yield
>>>tests that look incorrect and have equivalent working tests, or
>>>generics tests that pass with gmcs, can someone in the know look at
>>>them?
>>>      
>>>
>>CS8xxxx error numbers are MCS-internal (negative error numbers in the
>>mcs source code).  We're sometimes using them where it'd either be hard
>>to report a "real" error or where it's just not implemented yet.
>>
>>So in a perfect world, all these cs8*.cs should go away anyways and be
>>replaced with real errors.
>>    
>>
>
>In very few cases, MCS is able to report better errors than Microsoft,
>so we also have a few CS8* to cope with that: it is just a side effect
>of how our compiler is written.
>  
>
Unfortunately this is not this case ;-).
Almost all of these errors are 2.0 specific (templates + iterators). So 
I prefer renumber them to be same as csc 2.0.

Marek

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