Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
My proposal is to enable this while not in release mode (like we
enable checks and dump statistics and output from the optimizers), so
developers notice wrong locations and open a PR and maybe even fix
them.
Manuel --
I think it's great that you're working on caret diagnostics. However, I
agree 100% with Joseph and Robert. Users, including other GCC
developers, are not beta testers.
We can all work together, but the approach of "break the compiler and
hope that other developers will fix it" is not a good plan. As Joseph
says, this needs to be configured off by default (for compatibility with
the way GCC has worked since forever, and for compatibility with the GNU
standards), and there needs to be an option to turn it on. You will
need to recruit others who are willing to invest in helping to improve
the new mode's quality.
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell
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