On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> I wrote a little blog post that shows off some of the things that Clang can >> do. It would be great to improve some of GCC/G++'s diagnostics in a similar >> way: >> >> http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/amazing-feats-of-clang-error-recovery.html > > Unfortunately, you mix C and C++ examples. I know it is because clang > parses both with the same parser but this thread is only discussing > improving C++ diagnostics in GCC, and there is no plan or project for > C diagnostics. As it happens, some C++ diagnostics are better than the > same diagnostic for C and viceversa.
I think all the C examples are also valid C++ code, they should apply equally well, but I admit that I didn't try those on g++ to see how it does. I figured it also didn't matter much because there has surely been significant progress since gcc 4.2. -Chris