[cfe-dev] Info diagnostic level

[Victor Zverovich]

Hi Daniel,

Sorry, I've been busy with my main project and didn't follow the list for
some time.

The progress information example was probably not a good one since it is
indeed structured and better handled differently. However, I want to use
diagnostics to return unstructured information. My use case is the same as
you described. I want to output various information from the driver program
of my translator and was thinking of using Diagnostics instead of writing to
stderr for this.

Best regards,
Victor

2009/11/22 Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org>

> Hi Victor,
>
> Can you explain a bit more about what you want to do with this?
>
> If you want to return structured information (e.g., progress
> information), I'm not sure adding another diagnostic level is the
> right approach, since it is too generic and clients won't necessarily
> know how to deal with it (from an API level). If it is unstructured,
> then we need to clarify what the level means w.r.t. the existing
> levels.
>
> The reason I ask is that the driver has some similar issues where it
> currently dumps information to stderr (-v, -print-search-dirs, etc).
> In theory, I'd like to not have this buried in the Driver library but
> let the client have control over it, but I haven't decided how I want
> to do this (the obvious approaches are to extend Diagnostics, or use
> special diagnostic classes for it, or alternately use a different
> callback mechanism).
>
>  - Daniel
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Victor Zverovich
> <victor.zverovich at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am actively using the clang's Basic library in my project and in
> > particular its diagnostic part which is great.
> > However it has the following limitation: it is not possible to report an
> > "informational" message which is neither warning nor error through it.
> While
> > clang doesn't need this functionality it may be useful for other users
> (me
> > being one of them :)) without any overhead for clang. The attached patch
> > introduces the Info diagnostic level.
> > Thanks,
> > Victor
> >
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