[Bug middle-end/26061] error and warning count

[hyperquantum at gmail dot com]

------- Comment #20 from hyperquantum at gmail dot com  2008-07-21 11:32 -------
(In reply to comment #19)

> I really don't want to make it default off as it's really useful. I hope to fix
> the patch and make it default on for gcc 4.4 at least.

I agree. What's the status for getting it into 4.4?

People complain that changing GCC's output will break tools that parse that
output. I can understand why they're complaining, but IMHO this reveals a more
fundamental problem. The current diagnostic output tries to serve two purposes:
being readable for humans and being parseable by tools. And I think those two
should be separated. Why not have the default output be human-friendly, and
introduce a separate option, say "-fparseable-diagnostics" to switch to an
easily parseable output format?


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