[cfe-dev] #error and #warning: why include "#error/#warning" in the diagnostic?

[Ted Kremenek]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Dmitri Gribenko wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ted Kremenek <kremenek at apple.com> wrote:
>> I received some feedback from some users who wondered why #error/#warning diagnostics include the actual "#error" in the diagnostic, e.g.:
>> 
>>  t.c:1:2: error: #error this is an error
>> 
>> This seems redundant.  Is this necessary?
> 
> It marks explicitly diagnostics that come from source code (as opposed
> to diagnostics coming from the compiler).

That seems fine for text output, but for other clients (e.g., IDEs) we have diagnostic categories that could provide the same functionality with a much better experience.