https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82967
Bug ID: 82967
Summary: "did you mean" suggestions are way too suggestive
Product: gcc
Version: unknown
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: c
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org
Target Milestone: ---
Hello,
The new suggestions brought by recent gcc are nice to catch up mere typoes.
They are however quite often misleading, I could for instance see
'PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'INT8_MAX'?
implicit declaration of function ‘time’; did you mean ‘nice’?
implicit declaration of function ‘bar’; did you mean ‘carg’?
programming beginners will start writing all kinds of crazy code due to this:
"the compiler told me to do it"...
Changing half of the letters of a word, or 3 or more letters, looks too
suggestive to me, I'd say it should be reduced to at most 2 letters, and less
than a quarter or a third of the word.
Samuel
