[cfe-dev] The GCC Empire Strikes back

[Jordan Rose]

On Jun 19, 2012, at 4:36 , Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In case anyone haven't read this article yey, here is a link:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ClangDiagnosticsComparison
> 
> It claims that GCC 4.8 has better diagnostics than Clang for some cases.


I consider this a testament to Clang that its diagnostics were good enough to make diagnostics a priority for other compilers. If the end result of this is that all compilers have good diagnostics, I consider that a victory. (And it's always good to have competition as a motivating factor!)

Jordan