[cfe-commits] r58001 - in /cfe/trunk: include/clang/AST/Type.h include/clang/AST/TypeOrdering.h lib/AST/InheritViz.cpp lib/Sema/SemaDeclCXX.cpp

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:
> It occurs to me that, if we were sufficiently crazy, we could actually
> use this in (HTML) error messages. If you trigger an ambiguous
> conversion from a derived pointer to a base pointer (where there are
> multiple bases of the same type), it could show you the various paths.
> I was actually planning to just print the paths in ASCII, e.g.,
> D->B->A, D->C->A, but showing it graphically would be way cooler.

Wow, that would be really cool to do someday.  This is also something  
that could be exposed through a sufficiently smart IDE.  If you have  
good crazy ideas like this, please add them to the clang/NOTES.txt  
file so they just don't get lost.

-Chris