------- Comment #20 from hyperquantum at gmail dot com 2008-07-21 11:32 ------- (In reply to comment #19)
> I really don't want to make it default off as it's really useful. I hope to > fix > the patch and make it default on for gcc 4.4 at least. I agree. What's the status for getting it into 4.4? People complain that changing GCC's output will break tools that parse that output. I can understand why they're complaining, but IMHO this reveals a more fundamental problem. The current diagnostic output tries to serve two purposes: being readable for humans and being parseable by tools. And I think those two should be separated. Why not have the default output be human-friendly, and introduce a separate option, say "-fparseable-diagnostics" to switch to an easily parseable output format? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26061
