From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, tromey@redhat.com,
joseph@codesourcery.com, lopezibanez@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Tracking locations of tokens resulting from macro expansion
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiko4enSR8bvAVhn4Do9yAsvUZH4bz_hSz11neUG@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D062D34.1050606@redhat.com>
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/10 11:10, Dodji Seketeli wrote:
>>>
>>>> Several obversations can be made in that hypothetical example.
>>>>
>>>> - The location mentioned in the error message
>>>>
>>>> test.c:5:14: error: invalid operands to binary<< (have ‘double’ and
>>>> ‘int’)
>>>>
>>>> is the spelling location of the token '<<'. I believe this makes more
>>>> sense than the original behaviour.
>>>
>>> Agreed. However, I suspect some will disagree and it may cause havoc
>>> in automated code that parses error messages. Presumably there's a
>>> way to get the old behavior, even if you're tracking all three
>>> locations?
>>
>> The linemap API allows us to get the old behaviour (i.e, resolve virtual
>> locations to the macro expansion point). But as most of the client code
>> does that through the expand_location function, I wasn't sure how to
>> introduce choice there in a convenient way. Maybe I should add another
>> flag to control the "user interface" so to speak?
>
> I'm not sure either. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we end up changing
> our minds (whatever they may be) after a period of time with access to more
> thorough diagnostic information. ie, we may not know what the right
> interface should be until after we've used the info for a while. So I guess
> we should keep our options open for the UI issues.
Agreed. One thing we should also keep in mind though: GCC has already
way too many flags. Having dedicated flags to control every single
aspect does not necessarily make for good design.
-- gaby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-10 11:27 Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 11:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] Support -fdebug-cpp option Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 11:16 ` [PATCH 0/6] *** SUBJECT HERE *** Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 12:56 ` Dave Korn
2010-12-10 11:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add line map statistics to -fmem-report output Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-21 7:30 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2011-04-13 20:08 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 11:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] Emit macro expansion related diagnostics Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-13 15:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-12-13 15:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-12-13 16:30 ` Manuel López-Ibáñez
2010-12-14 7:24 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-14 7:28 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-14 8:40 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-14 9:38 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-14 9:42 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-14 9:48 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-14 7:28 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-14 8:19 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-14 8:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-12-14 9:23 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 11:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] Linemap infrastructure for virtual locations Dodji Seketeli
2011-01-06 16:48 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-12 14:39 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-04-14 14:46 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-10 12:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] Generate virtual locations for tokens Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 12:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] Kill pedantic warnings on system headers macros Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 12:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] Tracking locations of tokens resulting from macro expansion Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-10 18:22 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-10 16:59 ` Jeff Law
2010-12-10 19:00 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-13 15:10 ` Jeff Law
2010-12-13 16:35 ` Gabriel Dos Reis [this message]
2010-12-14 9:24 ` Dodji Seketeli
2010-12-14 9:40 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2010-12-14 9:45 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-16 14:38 ` [PATCH 0/7] " Dodji Seketeli
[not found] ` <cover.1310824120.git.dodji@redhat.com>
2011-07-16 14:38 ` [PATCH 3/7] Emit macro expansion related diagnostics Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-04 15:32 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-12 21:54 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-16 8:19 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-17 21:27 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-19 14:37 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-19 19:47 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-19 21:27 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-20 8:47 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-20 14:12 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-20 14:12 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-21 2:51 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-21 19:09 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-22 15:32 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-26 21:11 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-26 22:30 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-27 18:43 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-29 7:05 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-29 19:20 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-29 21:25 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-29 23:33 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-30 15:56 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-30 21:04 ` Jason Merrill
2011-10-03 22:50 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-10-04 19:59 ` Jason Merrill
2011-10-04 20:35 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-10-03 20:09 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-10-04 20:03 ` Jason Merrill
2011-10-04 20:28 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-20 0:08 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-16 14:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] Kill pedantic warnings on system headers macros Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-12 22:09 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-16 11:25 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-17 22:34 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-18 18:59 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-16 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/7] Support -fdebug-cpp option Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-21 11:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2011-08-21 11:40 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-08-22 14:45 ` Tom Tromey
2011-08-22 15:22 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-08-23 19:52 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-24 15:11 ` Tom Tromey
2011-09-12 22:07 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-16 8:23 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-17 22:01 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-16 14:39 ` [PATCH 5/7] Add line map statistics to -fmem-report output Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-12 22:07 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-16 8:29 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-17 22:05 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-20 12:10 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-20 14:08 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-16 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/7] Generate virtual locations for tokens Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-09 15:30 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-12 21:15 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-14 10:01 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-14 22:56 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-18 13:44 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-19 22:31 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-21 14:55 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-22 17:10 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-26 14:47 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-26 20:39 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-28 3:23 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-28 14:49 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-28 21:24 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-28 21:45 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-29 5:49 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] Linemap infrastructure for virtual locations Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-18 22:06 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-19 10:47 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-19 17:26 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-19 18:03 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-07-19 23:37 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-30 6:20 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-01 18:54 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-01 4:42 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-02 4:48 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-04 15:28 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-04 21:30 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-05 17:12 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-05 17:31 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-09 14:56 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-08-19 8:46 ` Jason Merrill
2011-08-19 14:43 ` Tom Tromey
2011-09-01 10:37 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-07 19:26 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-08 12:41 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-09 7:45 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-09 8:57 ` Jason Merrill
2011-07-16 15:34 ` [PATCH 7/7] Reduce memory waste due to non-power-of-2 allocs Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-12 22:25 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-17 13:41 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-17 22:22 ` Jason Merrill
2011-09-18 22:30 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-09-19 6:51 ` Laurynas Biveinis
2011-07-16 16:47 ` [PATCH 0/7] Tracking locations of tokens resulting from macro expansion Tobias Burnus
2011-07-16 17:57 ` Dodji Seketeli
2011-10-17 9:58 [PATCH 0/6] " Dodji Seketeli
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