On 13 April 2012 00:17, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez > <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12 April 2012 23:54, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez >>> <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Jonathan, >>>>[....] >>>> Of course, the major question is: Are the decision makers in GCC >>>> interested on any of this? >>>> >>>> Would some reviewer reject patches implementing them? >>> >>> I suspect decisions will be based on the implementations themselves. >>> >> >> So given your ideal implementation, if the user-visible result was >> exactly like the one in Clang, will you be happy with any of the three >> things: ranges, color and fix-it hints? > > My ideal isn't to replicate Clang :-) > > I would like us to set a standard that Clang would have to follow :-) > There are several things that need to be considered. > The three items above are choices in the toolset. Ideally, I would > like to have a mechanism where the output could be configured > (through a command line switch, etc) that allows for example IDEs > (not just GNU Emacs) to hook into databases of advices, standard > definitions, etc. Even for our own testsuites, this might be useful > instead of the current one-dimensional char sequence > oriented diagnostic testing.
That sounds nice. Are you working on this on a branch? I hope you manage to finish it for GCC 4.8. I would like to have color output. And since nobody is paying me to do this work, I'd rather work on what I would like to have. The question is whether this is something that GCC wants to have. If the answer is NO, that is fine, I will have more free time. If the answer is yes but the implementation has to autodetect low contrast settings / read colors from a configuration file / allow users to input colors in their own language, then thanks but no thanks, I'll choose my free time. If it is ok that the implementation works like grep's, then I may try to find some free time to give it a try, since the probability that some new contributor will implement it instead of just using Clang gets closer to zero as time goes by. Cheers, Manuel.
