RFC: c++ diagnostics

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> 
> Hello all! 
> 
> I've put up a short diagnostics comparison between gcc, icc, and
> clang. It is my plan to update this with major revisions to individual
> compilers. 
> 
> Included are most of the outstanding bugzilla requests with the
> "diagnostic" keyword. However, I am looking for help! Please send me
> code samples that frustrate, obfuscate, and annoy. 
> 
> In particular, I am looking for template instantiation issues such as
> c++/41884, but hopefully something in a deliciously small snippet. No
> doubt other C++ hackers have particular annoyances.
> 

Hi Benjamin,

I wrote a little blog post that shows off some of the things that Clang can do.  It would be great to improve some of GCC/G++'s diagnostics in a similar way:

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/amazing-feats-of-clang-error-recovery.html

-Chris