PATCH: new flag to say when things are synthesized

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Fri Nov 10 01:53:00 GMT 2000


Brendan Kehoe wrote:

> Counterproposal:
> 
> Make such things "notes" instead of "warnings" and use a different
> name space.  I applaud the idea of instrumenting the compiler in
> this way but I think that calling such a note a "warning" muddies
> the concept of "warning" unnecessarily.
I agree. This reminds me of the thread in June (at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-06/msg00202.html ), about
similar `warnings'. Those too are notes, which should be disableable.

nathan
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