2008/8/14 Joseph S. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The solution is producing accurate location ranges, which can be used (a) > to print more accurate expressions within the text of diagnostics in the > existing style, (b) to print GCS-compliant ranges in text that IDEs can > parse to highlight the relevant text in their editors (and we should > expect that tools such as GCC and GDB are increasingly going to be used as > a back end to other tools rather than just directly on the command line by > users), and (c) for caret diagnostics for users liking those on the > command line. Caret diagnostics are only one of the styles in which the > accurate location information can be used, and implementing an individial > style is only a small part of the solution. The PRs are about (a): cases > where an expression text is displayed within the existing diagnostic text, > badly. >
Then, we are talking about different things and having caret diagnostics is not the solution to anything of the above or the PRs mentioned in the original thread but a consequence of the solution. Thanks for clarifying this. Sorry for hijacking the thread. Cheers, Manuel.
