[cfe-dev] Info diagnostic level

[David Chisnall]

On 20 Nov 2009, at 19:08, Sean Hunt wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com>  
> wrote:
>>   - How do all of the existing diagnostic clients format infos/ 
>> remarks?
>>   - Are infos/remarks counted in the diagnostic count?
>>   - How do infos/remarks behave w.r.t. -Werror?
>>
>>        - Doug
>
> I think that remarks (I prefer the name) should not trigger -Werror;
> most remarks should, in my opinion be things that indicate nothing is
> wrong, and might in fact be helpful. A good example might be
> suggestions for changes that would increase the optimizer's potential
> (such as marking a variable as restrict). I suppose someone might
> really want -Wremark-error, but that should be a separate flag.


Delphi called these 'hints' and they included things that were  
semantically correct, but bad style.  It was quite a nice feature,  
especially for people learning the language.

David

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