[cfe-dev] [CLang] Suggestion : reference to the standard on error

[Dan Nelson]

Klaim - Joël Lamotte wrote:
> Here is a suggestion that unfortunately I will not be able to try to 
> implement, but maybe someone around here would like to consider it. 
> It's not a critical nor really needed feature but I think it might be
> very interesting.
> 
> The idea would be to add references to paragraphs of the language
> standard.

The TenDRA C compiler did this:

$ cat a.c
void f(int l)
{
    int a[l];
}
$ tcc -c a.c
"a.c", line 3: Error:
  [ISO C90 6.4]: Illegal integer constant expression.
  [ISO C90 6.5.4.2]: Array bound should be an integer constant expression.


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	Dan Nelson
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