Re: Can gcc show status of a compilation?

[Greatwolf <gmane dot greatwolf at mamber dot net>]

Tony Wetmore <tony.wetmore@solipsys.com> wrote in news:4CE0130A.1010707
@solipsys.com:

> 
> 
> Oh the other hand, if you are using the compiler to build an entire set 
> of files at once and want to see its progress, that sort of output may 
> be useful.  However, I would recommend that you consider using a tool 
> such as make to build your projects.
> 

Thank you for the suggestion though unfortunately not every build system 
can accomodate easily what you propose. Sometimes I do infact pass all 
the source files in at once when I want a full rebuild.

Still at any rate, in my experience all the other compilers I've tried 
(and I've tried quite a few of them), they do output some kind of 
information on the file currently compiled. This includes, MSVC 
compilers, Borland compilers and even Digital Mars compiler.

Other times this is handy if for example, I don't want make to output the 
commandlines being used in all it's verbosity, I would pass -s to not 
echo the command. However, I would still like to see the status of the 
files as it compiles.

I'd imagine this is a rather easy feature to add to gcc, if I were to 
implement this and submit a patch for it, would it be accepted? (assuming 
coding style and etiquette are followed)