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Re: enable fdiagnostics-show-option by default
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 16 April 2010 16:01, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why not? ?After all, the patch is changing the current default and users
>>>> who want to have the old default would have to do it in a user-by-user basis.
>>>
>>> Because I believe that in general it serves the community better for
>>> all naïve users to see the same presentation for warning and error
>>> messages, modulo translation.
>>>
>>> Also because there are hundreds of aspects of gcc behaviour that could
>>> in principle be controlled at configuration time. ?Why single this one
>>> out? ?gcc is already too configurable as it is. ?Too much
>>> configurability is not a feature. ?It adds complexity to the overall
>>> system for minimal gain.
>>
>> So I guess a patch to add a configure time switch won't be accepted.
>> It is quite a pain in the ass to write it, so I don't want to waste
>> (more) my time. Is this a deadlock? No solution?
>
> So far I think Gaby is opposed to your proposed change and Diego and I
> are in favor of it.
More accurately, I'm opposed to the patch in its current form. I offered
two alternatives:
(1) make the behaviour configurable at configure-time
(2) issue the [...] note only once.
-- Gaby