https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66318
Mikhail Maltsev <miyuki at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |miyuki at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #4 from Mikhail Maltsev <miyuki at gcc dot gnu.org> --- I think those tools will not like a newline character in the filename either. And I doubt that there is a reliable way to parse output of GCC if newlines are not escaped: $ cat ./test.cc void foo(); #line 1 "test1.cc:3:1 error: something wrong!\ntest2.cc" void bar() { foo("abc"); } $ /opt/gcc-6.0.0/bin/g++ -c ./test.cc test1.cc:3:1 error: something wrong! test2.cc: In function 'void bar()': test1.cc:3:1 error: something wrong! test2.cc:3:14: error: too many arguments to function 'void foo()' ./test.cc:1:6: note: declared here void foo(); Anyway, GCC already suppresses color diagnostics when stderr is not a TTY (implemented in should_colorize function). Probably the same logic could be applied to hypothetical "should_escape".