[cfe-dev] line number of matching curly

[Niklas Angare]

"Chris Lattner" wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Niklas Angare wrote:
>> Sorry to barge in, but I'm wondering what the likelihood is of the 
>> compiler
>> actually pointing to the correct left brace.
>
> You're right that the compiler doesn't know what you meant... the idea of 
> pointing out the opening braces is so that *you* know what the compiler is 
> "thinking".

But contrary to what the new diagnostic implies, the compiler didn't think 
about which the matching brace was. It just thought "there are fewer right 
braces than left braces".