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Re: Patch: update -fmessage-length docs
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- Cc: Gcc Patch List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 29 Mar 2007 09:40:11 -0600
- Subject: Re: Patch: update -fmessage-length docs
- References: <m3mz1w84ce.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <877it0xdjq.fsf@soliton.cs.tamu.edu>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Gaby" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> | It turns out that -fmessage-length defaults to 0 even for g++.
Gaby> Then, that is a bug.
Gaby> When I oiginally implemented that for C++, the intended semantics
Gaby> definitely was to have it default to 72 -- but C people wanted
Gaby> something different for C front end. If it is observed that g++ has
Gaby> it set to zero, then we must set it back to 72.
I don't have a preference on this, just that the docs match the
implementation.
If we change it to 72 then PR 712 should be reopened. That is how I
noticed this :)
Tom