On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 10/16/2011 12:28 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Paolo Carlini<paolo.carl...@oracle.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in this simple documentation PR, Tom noticed that we have a (very long >>> standing) inconsistency between the default value of -fmessage-length for >>> C++ as documented and as implemented: in fact it's 0 in >>> cxx-pretty-print.c, >>> like all the other front-ends. At the time of the PR people briefly >>> envisage >>> changing the default but the discussion didn't go anywhere, I think we >>> can >>> as well do the below, for the time being at least, remove the >>> inconsistency. >>> >>> Ok? >> >> I still think the default for g++ should be 72. Notice that other >> front-ends have set it to zero because they feared something, unlike the >> C++ frontend. > > To be clear, I have no strong opinion. But last time Richard Gunther > strongly disagreed (and now he is a Global Reviewer ;) Thus, just let me > know guys...
0 is just so much more convenient for consumers and all consumers that care for line lengths can properly wrap around. So I don't see a good reason to have -fmessage-length at all. Richard. > Paolo. >
