On 5 April 2012 11:03, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> >> Note that some of the above depend on optimization flag settings >> (and optimization happening). Those are not good candidates - I think >> good candidates are those that would still be fully operational with >> -fsyntax-only. > > I am not sure -fsyntax-only is a good criteria. > -fsyntax-only limits the amount of work that the compiler does in terms > of code generation, but it should be orthogonal to diagnostic issues.
I don't think this is what you meant, but FWIW -fsyntax-only prevents (at least some) template instantiation for C++, which means lots of diagnostics are suppressed when using it.