On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
This is an argument that should have been made more than a decade ago and -fmessage-length was *requested* by users who did care about line length, and implemented for g++.
