Re: PR26061 error and warning counts

["Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>]

On 13 Feb 2007 15:31:32 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > The fact that the testsuite needs adjusting like this illustrates the
> > likelihood of breaking external tools (e.g. IDEs) that process GCC's
> > output.  This means this change to output should perhaps be off by
> > default, with a new option to enable it people wanting this style can put
> > in their Makefiles.
>
> I would seriously question making something like this a gcc option.
> If it's off by default, very few people will use it.  And those people
> can get the same effect by writing a small awk script.
>
> I don't have an opinion on whether we should implement this or not,
> but I don't think it should be an option.

I wholeheartedly agree with Ian. Either we  want it or either we
don't. If we don't want it then we should close the PR as wontfix.

I think that it could be a nice thing to have but I don't think it is
tremendously useful anyway, since you can use grep -e
"error:|warning:" -c to achieve a similar (but perhaps not exactly
equal) effect.  No need to learn awk!

Cheers,

Manuel.