On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bschm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/24/2016 03:28 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
>
>> (B) -fdiagnostics-apply-fixits, which writes back the changes
>> to the input files.
>
>
> That sounds really scary, there's no way I'd personally ever enable
> something like this. Do we have any data about what percentage of fixits
> actually correctly identify the problem?
>
> We also better make really sure there's no way we'll get bug reports along
> the lines of "gcc ate my program and now it's gone".

You never typoed

gcc t.c -o t.c

?  ;)  (I did ... :/)

But yes, exactly my feelings towards (B).

IMHO (B) is something for tight IDE - compiler integration, sth GCC is not very
good at at the moment.  [hint: provide the patches in a form so emacs
can eat them]

Richard.

>
> Bernd

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