[C++ Patch] PR 32614

Paolo Carlini paolo.carlini@oracle.com
Sun Oct 16 11:26:00 GMT 2011


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.



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