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Re: [RFC] GCC caret diagnostics
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Ian suggested that we delete this information after the FE is
> > finished. This makes sense, I think, from a memory-saving
> > perspective. But, that means we will get different kinds of error
> > output depending on when a diagnostic is emitted, which I think is
> > pretty unfriendly -- it exposes implementation details of gcc to the
> > user.
>
> I think that is mostly OK in practice because most diagnostics are
> issued by the front end. But I admit that some come from the
> middle-end, so there would be an inconsistency.
There are a number of people (including me) who believe that
diagnostics from the middle end are oddities. Not everybody is
of that opinion, but I would argue that we should not encourage
diagnostics from the middle end.