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Re: [PATCH] caret diagnostics (was: broken FE diagnostics wrt complex expressions)
2008/8/14 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
>
> The solution is producing accurate location ranges, which can be used (a)
> to print more accurate expressions within the text of diagnostics in the
> existing style, (b) to print GCS-compliant ranges in text that IDEs can
> parse to highlight the relevant text in their editors (and we should
> expect that tools such as GCC and GDB are increasingly going to be used as
> a back end to other tools rather than just directly on the command line by
> users), and (c) for caret diagnostics for users liking those on the
> command line. Caret diagnostics are only one of the styles in which the
> accurate location information can be used, and implementing an individial
> style is only a small part of the solution. The PRs are about (a): cases
> where an expression text is displayed within the existing diagnostic text,
> badly.
>
Then, we are talking about different things and having caret
diagnostics is not the solution to anything of the above or the PRs
mentioned in the original thread but a consequence of the solution.
Thanks for clarifying this. Sorry for hijacking the thread.
Cheers,
Manuel.