r255726 - Update our claims about GCC's diagnostics quality to reflect recent improvements to GCC.

Richard Smith via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Dec 15 16:18:48 PST 2015


Author: rsmith
Date: Tue Dec 15 18:18:47 2015
New Revision: 255726

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=255726&view=rev
Log:
Update our claims about GCC's diagnostics quality to reflect recent improvements to GCC.

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/www/comparison.html

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/comparison.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/comparison.html?rev=255726&r1=255725&r2=255726&view=diff
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--- cfe/trunk/www/comparison.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/comparison.html Tue Dec 15 18:18:47 2015
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@
         that produced it (it is not a structured format).</li>
     <li>Clang is <a href="features.html#performance">much faster and uses far
         less memory</a> than GCC.</li>
-    <li>Clang aims to provide extremely clear and concise diagnostics (error and
-        warning messages), and includes support for <a
-        href="diagnostics.html">expressive diagnostics</a>.  GCC's warnings are 
-        sometimes acceptable, but are often confusing and it does not support
-        expressive diagnostics.  Clang also preserves typedefs in diagnostics
-        consistently, showing macro expansions and many other features.</li>
+    <li>Clang has been designed from the start to provide extremely clear and
+        concise diagnostics (error and warning messages), and includes support
+        for <a href="diagnostics.html">expressive diagnostics</a>.
+        Modern versions of GCC have made significant advances in this area,
+        incorporating various Clang features such as preserving typedefs in
+        diagnostics and showing macro expansions, but is still catching up.</li>
     <li>GCC is licensed under the GPL license. <a href="features.html#license">
         clang uses a BSD license,</a> which allows it to be embedded in
         software that is not GPL-licensed.</li>




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