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Re: RFC: c++ diagnostics
> >> http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/amazing-feats-of-clang-error-recovery.html
> >
> > ...As it happens, some C++ diagnostics are better than the
> > same diagnostic for C and viceversa.
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:45:11AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> I think all the C examples are also valid C++ code, they should apply equally well, but I admit that I didn't try those on g++ to see how it does. I figured it also didn't matter much because there has surely been significant progress since gcc 4.2.
Yes, g++ does a better job for some of Chris's examples than gcc does.
For the second example we get
t.c:1: error: 'pid_t' has not been declared
For the third example:
t.c:2: error: 'int64' does not name a type
However, most of the criticisms do apply, and the spell checker is a
very good idea.