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Re: [RFC] enabling -fshow-column by default
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:03:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] enabling -fshow-column by default
- References: <20090520142305.GA14937@redhat.com> <m3pre33kbf.fsf@google.com>
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> When we have good caret diagnostics it would also be nice to enable them
> by default. However, that is a much bigger change. Does anybody have
> an opinion on that?
Yes, that tripling the size of output in a cascade of diagnostics is a bad
idea. Possibly disable them by default after the first few errors (or a
larger number of warnings) if enabled by default (not explicitly) up to
then? Also, work with the GNU Coding Standards maintainers on any
conventions for caret diagnostics in GNU software.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com