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Re: [PATCH] caret diagnostics

Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

My proposal is to enable this while not in release mode (like we
enable checks and dump statistics and output from the optimizers), so
developers notice wrong locations and open a PR and maybe even fix
them.

Manuel --

I think it's great that you're working on caret diagnostics. However, I agree 100% with Joseph and Robert. Users, including other GCC developers, are not beta testers.

We can all work together, but the approach of "break the compiler and hope that other developers will fix it" is not a good plan. As Joseph says, this needs to be configured off by default (for compatibility with the way GCC has worked since forever, and for compatibility with the GNU standards), and there needs to be an option to turn it on. You will need to recruit others who are willing to invest in helping to improve the new mode's quality.

Thanks,

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