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Re: named warnings & individual warning control
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Giovanni Bajo
"Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr@acm.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> You Wrote Mark Mitchell
> > Personally, I'd oppose any patch to implement this feature (including my
> > original one) if we don't have a policy statement about how the feature
> > is going to be used. I think that implementing this feature in a way
> > that is useful to people is going to require a lot more discipline from
> > those of us that are front end maintainers, in particular, and I think
> > we need to know how we're going to do that. Now, from a technical point
> > of view, if you put all the messages in a catalog, and tagged them with
> > their existing warning categories -- but didn't change the user
> > interface at all -- that would just be a technical patch, and we could
> > consider it on its technical merits -- is it easier/harder to maintain,
> > etc.
>
> And even more so, it also may place an undue burden on the way
> we maintain disgnostics. People like Giovanni Bangert have been
> improving the diagnostics based on PRs. This is a feedback
> process. It is important that we have some freedom in the way
> we word the diagnostics; I would certainly not buy something
> that would hinder diagnostic improvements.
>
> (For example, I want to kill the "first use this function"
> silly message, without having to disturb users or being disturbed).
>
> > --
> > Mark Mitchell
> > CodeSourcery, LLC
> > (916) 791-8304
> > mark@codesourcery.com
> >
> >
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