probinson added inline comments.

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Comment at: include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticSemaKinds.td:6729
 def err_no_dynamic_cast_with_fno_rtti : Error<
-  "cannot use dynamic_cast with -fno-rtti">;
+  "use of dynamic_cast requires enabling RTTI">;
 
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wristow wrote:
> Sunil_Srivastava wrote:
> > probinson wrote:
> > > filcab wrote:
> > > > I'd prefer to have the way to enable RTTI mentioned in the message. 
> > > > Could we have something like `ToolChain::getRTTIMode()` and have a 
> > > > "RTTI was on/of" or "RTTI defaulted to on/off"? That way we'd be able 
> > > > to have a message similar to the current one (mentioning "you passed 
> > > > -fno-rtti") on platforms that default to RTTI=on, and have your updated 
> > > > message (possibly with a mention of "use -frtti") on platforms that 
> > > > default to RTTI=off.
> > > > 
> > > > (This is a minor usability comment about this patch, I don't consider 
> > > > it a blocker or anything)
> > > If the options are spelled differently for clang-cl and we had a way to 
> > > retrieve the appropriate spellings, providing the option to use in the 
> > > diagnostic does seem like a nice touch.
> > The idea of suggestion as to how-to-turn-on-rtti is appealing, but it is 
> > not trivial.
> > 
> > First, clang-cl does not give this warning at all, so the issue is moot for 
> > clang-cl.
> > 
> > For unix-line command-line, if the default RTTI mode in ENABLED (the 
> > unknown-linux)
> > then this warning appears only if the user gives -fno-rtti options, so 
> > again we do
> > not need to say anything more.
> > 
> > The only cases left are compilers a where the default RTTI mode is 
> > DISABLED. 
> > Here an addendum like '[-frtti]' may make sense. AFAIK, PS4 is the only 
> > compiler
> > with this default, but there may be other such private compilers.
> > 
> > So should we append '[-frtti]' if Target.getTriple().isPS4() is true?
> > So should we append '[-frtti]' if Target.getTriple().isPS4() is true?
> 
> Personally, I'd be OK with producing a suggestion of how to enable RTTI based 
> on the PS4 triple.  But I'd also be OK with not enhancing this diagnostic to 
> suggest how to turn on RTTI (that is, going with the patch as originally 
> proposed here).
> 
> If clang-cl produced a warning when a dynamic_cast or typeid construct was 
> encountered in `/GR-` mode, then I'd feel it's worth complicating the code to 
> provide a target-sensitive way for advising the user how to turn RTTI on.  
> But clang-cl doesn't produce a warning in that case, so the effort to add the 
> framework for producing a target-sensitive warning doesn't seem worth it to 
> me.
> 
> Improving clang-cl to produce a diagnostic in this `/GR-` situation seems 
> like a good idea, but separate from this proposed patch.  If that work gets 
> done at some point, then it would be natural to revisit this diagnostic at 
> that time.
If clang-cl is not a consideration, then I think the easiest and clearest way 
to do this is simply to say `requires -frtti` without hair-splitting which 
targets default which way.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D47291



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