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Re: Advanced diff with gcc...
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Fabrizio Morbini <fabrizio dot morbini at libero dot it>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:44:12 -0800
- Subject: Re: Advanced diff with gcc...
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301311758530.3074-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:35:48PM +0100, Fabrizio Morbini wrote:
> Hi, I write you for post an ideaa: what do you think about adding an
> option (for example --diff) to the gcc compiler that can do an advanced
> diff (and very specializzed to the language of the files to compare).
>
> For example a command like this "gcc --diff file1.c file2.c" run the gcc
> parser on the two files and use the tree computed by the parser to print a
> very intelligent diff to the .
This could conceivably be a useful tool, but unless you're volunteering
to write it yourself and ask for help, it's probably not going to happen.
The GCC developers are quite busy with existing work.