On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > 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++.
I wasn't around at that time, so sorry for not raising my opinion earlier ;) Richard.
