Comment by Alekanekelo

A similar thing happens to clang (Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)) which gives the following error message:

        fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]

According to the User's manual the default is 20 for -ferror-limit [1].

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html