Is NaCl the only precipitate when you add HCl to concentrated NaCl [closed]








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When aqueous HCl is added to a saturated salt water solution, is NaCl the only precipitate or does some HCl crystalize as well?


Sources online say that NaCl crystallizes but they don't say what happens to the HCl


<https://bouman.chem.georgetown.edu/S02/lect8/lect8.htm>
<http://www.csun.edu/~ml727939/coursework/695/common%20ion%20effect/recrystallization%20of%20NaCl%20solution%20with%20HCl.htm>




$\ce{HCl}$ is at ambient conditions a gas, very well soluble in water, dissociating as a strong acid. 


When there is excess of it in solution, that cannot be kept solved, it does not precipitate, but evaporates or even boils out, depending on scenario.


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