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Re: [PATCH] caret diagnostics (was: broken FE diagnostics wrt complex expressions)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> wrote:
>> * In the near future, make -fdiagnostics-show-caret the default at
>> least while in experimental mode or at least during stages1 and 2.
>> When making a release -fno-diagnostics-show-caret would be the
>> default. Do this through a configure option that sets the default.
>>
>> * In the far away future, review the defaults and get rid of the
>> configure option.
>
> To be honest, I don't mind either way. Either your option or Joseph's
> is fine. I am however interested in getting the caret diagnostics in,
> and then I can work on location information that will benefit everyone.
I'm in favor of getting -fdiagnostics-show-caret=no by default in this release,
and enable people like you to get useful stuff done. That gives us time
to iron out outstanding bugs for the next release (and making it the default).
-- Gaby
>
> Aldy
>