[cfe-dev] RFC: refactoring clangDriver - diagnostics classes

[David Blaikie via cfe-dev]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:58 AM Andrzej Warzynski
<andrzej.warzynski at arm.com> wrote:
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> On 24/11/2020 18:00, David Blaikie wrote:
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> > Sorry for the slight distraction, but what's the plan for Flang's
> > diagnostics? Might it benefit from Clang's diagnostic infrastructure
> > for tracking source locations, etc?
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> No worries. We discussed this briefly in the past (see e.g. [1]). AFAIK,
> there are no plans to share diagnostics infra between Clang and Flang.
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> Diagnostics (and SourceLocation) in Clang are tuned for C-family
> languages. Generalising that code would be non-trivial. Personally I
> think that such code re-use would be great, but sadly we wouldn't be
> able to commit to such refactoring anytime soon.
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> [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-June/142024.html

Hmm - given the answer here:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-June/142048.html - I
wonder whether it's likely there should/would be more code reuse.
Sharing the whole integrated assembler between clang and flang? I
don't see further discussion on that branch of the thread engaging
with that idea.