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Re: Patch: update -fmessage-length docs
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
| >>>>> "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.
I completely agree.
| If we change it to 72 then PR 712 should be reopened. That is how I
| noticed this :)
Sure. :-)
-- Gaby