[RFC] enabling -fshow-column by default

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> When we have good caret diagnostics it would also be nice to enable them
> by default.  However, that is a much bigger change.  Does anybody have
> an opinion on that?

Yes, that tripling the size of output in a cascade of diagnostics is a bad 
idea.  Possibly disable them by default after the first few errors (or a 
larger number of warnings) if enabled by default (not explicitly) up to 
then?  Also, work with the GNU Coding Standards maintainers on any 
conventions for caret diagnostics in GNU software.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com