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Re: broken FE diagnostics wrt complex expressions
- From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: "Aldy Hernandez" <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: dberlin at dberlin dot org, jakub at redhat dot com, tromey at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:32:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: broken FE diagnostics wrt complex expressions
- References: <20080813175223.GA31009@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the only approach here would be to provide caret
> diagnostics, because reconstructing the original sources from GENERIC
> seems like a loosing proposition.
Hi Aldy,
I agree with your analysis.
>
> But, is this slew of work even worth it?
For the long term benefit, yes.
> I for one think that the
> aforementioned PRs should at least be marked down considerably. 3 of
> them are P2s-- and I think they should be some Pn+5, and/or mark them as
> an enhancement request.
>
> Are there any thoughts on this (the PRs, the caret diagnostics, plan of
> attack, etc?).
I'm kind of busy at the moment, and had put off work on caret diagnostics.
I've seen mail suggesting that some folks are working on it...
>
> Aldy
>