What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Have a compile issue which produces lots of messages
(2) See "error: too many errors emitted, stopping now (use -error-limit=0 to see all errors)"
(3) Try to display all the errors

What is the expected result?
To crush the error limit.
See them displayed before you.
And to hear the lamentations of your terminal scrollback buffer.

What happens instead?
chromium/src/out/Default/../../third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts/bin/ld.lld: error: too many errors emitted, stopping now (use -error-limit=0 to see all errors)

$ ninja -C out/Default -error-limit=0
<...>/depot_tools/ninja-linux64: invalid option -- 'e'

--error-limit=0 also fails