On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Kaelyn Takata <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Hans Wennborg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Hans Wennborg <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The 3.6 release is drawing nearer, but the release notes could still >> > use a lot of improvement: >> > >> > LLVM: >> > https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/release_36/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst >> > Clang: >> > https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/release_36/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst >> > >> > The good news is that they can be updated all the way up until >> > release. If you have a patch for the release notes, commit it directly >> > to the branch, or send it to me and I'll commit it for you. It doesn't >> > even have to be a patch proper, just send me some text! >> >> Kaelyn, do you want to add something about delayed type correction to >> the Clang notes? > > > I'm not sure what would be good to add--while the internal work was pretty > extensive, the only user-visible changes are that the typo suggestions given > are a bit smarter mainly in large or complex translation units (mostly in > more corner-like cases such as getting the right combination of corrections > when a single expression has multiple typos, or where multiple > equally-likely corrections can be disambiguated based on additional > information about the expression in which the typo occurs, or choosing a > textually less-close correction based on e.g. the arguments or return value > if it is a function call). Which is to say, it now tries a bit harder to > give a usable suggestion in more cases, with fewer situations where it could > have suggested something but didn't, or where the suggestion caused more > compilation errors. Oh, and there are now more cases where it can > successfully recover when the suggestion is a keyword that changes how the > expression is parsed.
Thanks, I've added a short blurb based on that in http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=229943 - Hans _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
