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Re: PR26061 error and warning counts
"Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez@gmail.com> writes:
| On 13 Feb 2007 15:31:32 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
| > "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
| >
| > > The fact that the testsuite needs adjusting like this illustrates the
| > > likelihood of breaking external tools (e.g. IDEs) that process GCC's
| > > output. This means this change to output should perhaps be off by
| > > default, with a new option to enable it people wanting this style can put
| > > in their Makefiles.
| >
| > I would seriously question making something like this a gcc option.
| > If it's off by default, very few people will use it. And those people
| > can get the same effect by writing a small awk script.
| >
| > I don't have an opinion on whether we should implement this or not,
| > but I don't think it should be an option.
| >
|
| I wholeheartedly agree with Ian. Either we want it or either we
| don't. If we don't want it then we should close the PR as wontfix.
that does not make much sense to me. The reasoning made above could
be applied to any options we have by default.
-- Gaby