Do not set `$!` to `SyntaxError` when error tolerant

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 3f0eb54d4e..f4b4b8f3d1 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -6488,8 +6488,8 @@ yycompile0(VALUE arg)
 	if (!mesg) {
 	    mesg = rb_class_new_instance(0, 0, rb_eSyntaxError);
 	}
-	rb_set_errinfo(mesg);
 	if (!p->error_tolerant) {
+	    rb_set_errinfo(mesg);
 	    return FALSE;
 	}
     }