Add an option to abort compilation when generating errors

[vcsharma]

It came up during review of #3043 that when generating compilation errors, it is desirable in most cases to stop further compilation and exit. It seems the current mechanism doesn't support that.

Here is a relevant comment from @tex3d

Currently, it seems the only way to abort the pipeline is with a report_fatal_error, which currently raises a structured exception - which is way too harsh for something like this, and we should likely change report_fatal_error to throw a C++ exception, since we still have a chance of emitting a useful error message then.

[bob80905]

This issue was completed with:
#4427