RFC: c++ diagnostics

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Unfortunately, you mix C and C++ examples. I know it is because clang
> parses both with the same parser but this thread is only discussing
> improving C++ diagnostics in GCC, and there is no plan or project for
> C diagnostics. As it happens, some C++ diagnostics are better than the
> same diagnostic for C and viceversa.

I think all the C examples are also valid C++ code, they should apply equally well, but I admit that I didn't try those on g++ to see how it does.  I figured it also didn't matter much because there has surely been significant progress since gcc 4.2.

-Chris