On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 08:40:03 UTC, DigitalDesigns wrote:
There needs to be a switch, if their isn't one already, where
only errors are verbose.
When I use the -v switch it not only expands the error trace
like it should but also adds all kinds of additional
meaningless info(semantic3, module list, etc). All this
additional information is generally useless and obscures the
main point of using -v which is to get a deeper error trace.
When doing a lot of compile time work and using pragma msg, it
can make things worse.
It would be nice if there was something in between the two
extremes: Only shows longer error traces and only most
important compiler verbosity. Better yet, implement a verbosity
level -v1, ..., -v9 give 9 zones and one can enable any number
of zones -v158 enables the errors for zones 1 5 and 8. Could
use hex for more zones: -v14aef.
Anyways, I guess it's more of a dream feature...
The info is not useless, it very useful when debugging the
compiler :)
What additional info do you get with -v that helps?
(I ask having only really used LDC's -vv for debugging it (which
produces waaaay more output than DMD))
