[RFC] GCC caret diagnostics

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> On 13/03/2008, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> How about -fshow-caret instead of -fdiagnostics-show-caret?
>>>> (By analogy with -fshow-column.)
>>
>> Manuel> Well, we have -fdiagnostics-show-option and
>> Manuel> -fdiagnostics-show-location. So 2 versus 1. ;-) That said,  
>> I would
>> Manuel> also prefer -fshow-option and -fshow-location.
>>
>> Yeah.  "diagnostics" is too long to type, and "ambiguously plural",  
>> if
>> you know what I mean.
>
> Chris,
>
> Does clang have a -fno-show-caret or -fno-diagnostics-show-caret
> options? Compatibility with clang may incline the balance towards one
> or another for me. If not, I think I will go for -fshow-caret.

clang has these two.  I think GCC has the second one already:

    -fno-caret-diagnostics      - Do not include source line and caret  
with diagnostics
    -fno-show-column            - Do not include column number on  
diagnostics

-Chris