On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:38:46PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> On 09/09/2013 11:37 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> >That said, grepping for %q+D reveals quite some uses and it looks like
> >all of them expect the location being used to be that of the decl passed
> >to the diagnostic call, not some random other location.
> If the decl is *not* a PARM_DECL, I expect %q+D to be often
> accurate. In fact, even when *is* a PARM_DECL what we have now is
> pretty decent, because normally the location of the corresponding
> FUNCTION_DECL isn't that far. The point is whether we want to be
> *more* accurate and point to the specific unused parameter, for C
> and C++, as clang and icc do.
I guess the primary question is why location_of special cases the PARM_DECL
and in which case it is useful to do so, and whether the number of cases (if
any) when it is useful to do so is bigger than the number of place when it
is undesirable.
Jakub
