On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:52:24PM CEST: > > I'm sympathetic to the idea that switching to caret output by default > > will break things. However, I don't think that GCS-style ranges are > > necessarily any more reality-proof, because I am skeptical that most > > tool developers read this document when deciding how to parse GCC's > > output. > > The GCS document helps not only to let tool developers know how output > of programs they parse looks like; more importantly, it helps ensure > that output from different programs is consistent.
And thereby allows a post-processor to add caret diagnostics to the output of any GCS-conforming program, or an IDE or editor to show the locations of errors from such a program, not just GCC, for example. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
