[C++ Patch / RFC] PR 33067

[Paolo Carlini]

On 10/10/2011 07:28 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> A GCC user not interested in numerics probably won't care. However, I 
> do not think that extends to people who do care about numerics and 
> have literals in their program. If GCC displays an error message with 
> literals truncated, it is not at clear to the user that GCC is 
> behaving correctly: for one thing, the error might be mysterious and 
> hard to understand, now the compiler is indicating that apparently it 
> does not even parse and understand correctly his or her numbers. How 
> if you have several numbers like that that differs only on the 10th 
> digit? If the user is using an IDE that pattern match the output on 
> the source code, it would be even more confusing (as it is now.) 
Would you like to see the max_digits10 - inspired patch for 4.7.0? 
Again, no strong opinion, just let me know. Personally, I find that too 
quite a bit better than the current behavior.

Paolo.