Re: [C++ Patch] PR 32614

[Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>]

On 10/16/2011 12:28 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Paolo Carlini<paolo.carlini@oracle.com>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in this simple documentation PR, Tom noticed that we have a (very long
> > standing) inconsistency between the default value of -fmessage-length for
> > C++ as documented and as implemented: in fact it's 0 in cxx-pretty-print.c,
> > like all the other front-ends. At the time of the PR people briefly envisage
> > changing the default but the discussion didn't go anywhere, I think we can
> > as well do the below, for the time being at least, remove the inconsistency.
> >
> > Ok?
> I still think the default for g++ should be 72.  Notice that other
> front-ends have set it to zero because they feared something, unlike the C++ frontend.
To be clear, I have no strong opinion. But last time Richard Gunther 
strongly disagreed (and now he is a Global Reviewer ;) Thus, just let me 
know guys...

Paolo.