Remove `def error(pos: Position, err: Throwable)`

The overload was used only once.

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Contexts.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Contexts.scala
index f5f9494562..e7ab9dc94e 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Contexts.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Contexts.scala
@@ -604,11 +604,6 @@ trait Contexts { self: Analyzer =>
     /** Issue/buffer/throw the given implicit ambiguity error according to the current mode for error reporting. */
     private[typechecker] def issueAmbiguousError(err: AbsTypeError) = issueCommon(err, ambiguousErrors)
 
-    /** Issue/throw the given `err` according to the current mode for error reporting. */
-    def error(pos: Position, err: Throwable) =
-      if (reportErrors) unitError(pos, addDiagString(err.getMessage()))
-      else throw err
-
     /** Issue/throw the given error message according to the current mode for error reporting. */
     def error(pos: Position, msg: String) = {
       val msg1 = addDiagString(msg)
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
index fbea69db5a..89b064e7c1 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ trait TypeDiagnostics {
               throw new FatalError("cannot redefine root "+sym)
           }
         case _ =>
-          context0.error(ex.pos, ex)
+          context0.error(ex.pos, ex.msg)
       }
     }
   }