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Re: broken FE diagnostics wrt complex expressions

> Aldy> 1. beginning/ending locations functionality as Joseph suggests.
> Aldy> 2. make sure the parsers pick the proper token/location.
> Aldy> 3. error reporting machinery
> 
> Aldy> How does this sound?  
> 
> It sounds good to me.  #1 might be hard, I have not looked into it.

Well, we can always start with that which produces the most bang for the
buck, #2.  I'd rather have a caret at the beginning of the error, than
no caret at all.  Then we can expand to beginning and end.

> ISTR Manuel having a patch for caret diagnostic output... ?

Is this manu at gcc.gnu.org?  If so, copying him.

Aldy
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