[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

["joseph at codesourcery dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Comment #11 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2009-08-08 16:33 -------
Subject: Re:  (Natural) language independent error / warning
 classification

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, manu at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> I am not planning to work on this further. This patch shows that it can be
> done, but I don't know if there is any interest on this.

The principle makes sense (obviously the prototype patch would need 
further work for actual inclusion, e.g. escaping of < and > signs for the 
XML output), but I think in practice it's only useful if driven by 
cooperation from IDE people who will help establish what the XML should 
look like and commit to making an IDE use the XML output in future by 
default when using a GCC version that supports it.

I imagine that the XML should have some way of marking continuation 
messages as such, should include the option (as from 
-fdiagnostics-show-option) in some structured way, and probably should 
give locations and inclusion context in an XML structured way as well 
rather than as plain text - but discussion would be needed with IDE people 
on what information GCC can give and how an IDE could use it.


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