> >> http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/amazing-feats-of-clang-error-recovery.html > > > > ...As it happens, some C++ diagnostics are better than the > > same diagnostic for C and viceversa.
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:45:11AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote: > 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. Yes, g++ does a better job for some of Chris's examples than gcc does. For the second example we get t.c:1: error: 'pid_t' has not been declared For the third example: t.c:2: error: 'int64' does not name a type However, most of the criticisms do apply, and the spell checker is a very good idea.
