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Re: [PATCH] caret diagnostics
Joseph S. Myers wrote:
We certainly do change the *text* of messages to improve them (this
includes putting in more information that can fit within the existing
single-line format), and add new messages following the standard formats,
but I believe we should leave consumers able to rely on certain aspects of
the output that follow the GNU Coding Standards and not start inserting
new, non-standard lines in the output that would dominate the standard
ones.
Right of course improving messages is always reasonable (though in
practice at least in the case of Ada, we find that often the major
work in updating text of a message is updating all the test base
lines :-))
I just think that adding carets everywhere by default is too big
a change to be justified.