[cfe-commits] r100689 - in /cfe/trunk: docs/UsersManual.html include/clang/Driver/Options.td lib/Driver/Tools.cpp

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Ted Kremenek wrote:

> 
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $ clang foo.c
>>>> <tons of crap>
>>>> foo.c:102:3: error: unknown type name 'somethingbad'
>>>> somethingbad x;
>>>> ^
>>>> fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now
>>>> 36 warnings and 20 errors generated.
>>> 
>>> Would it make sense for this to say something like
>>> 36 warnings and 20 (of 33 total) errors generated.
>> 
>> That would be somewhat nice, fatal errors can stop compilation early as well in theory. Getting a total count isn't really feasible, and I don't really think it's useful.
>> 
> 
> Don't fatal errors just suppress the emission of diagnostics, and not stop compilation?

In general yes, but the compiler can try to stop early, for example in the top-level translation unit parsing loop.

-Chris