[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D138939: [WIP][clang] adds a way to provide user-oriented reasons

[Erich Keane via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

erichkeane added a comment.

In D138939#3964404 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D138939#3964404>, @cjdb wrote:

> In D138939#3963496 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D138939#3963496>, @erichkeane wrote:
>
>> In D138939#3963473 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D138939#3963473>, @tschuett wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe `void FormatDiagnostic(SmallVectorImpl<char> &OutStr, DiagnosticMode mode)`instead of `void FormatDiagnostic(SmallVectorImpl<char> &OutStr)`?
>>> To make the transition easer and future proof.
>>
>> I like this idea.  Perhaps with DiagnosticMode being a 3-way enum:
>>
>>   enum struct DiagnosticMode {
>>     Legacy,
>>     Sarif,  
>>     Default = Legacy
>>   }
>>
>> I like the idea in particular, since it makes a command line flag to modify "Default" to be whichever the user prefers pretty trivial.
>
> There's already a flag for this: `-fdiagnostics-format=sarif`. Why do we need a second diagnostic mode flag?

Ah, oh... is the Sarif formatting being done with a new formatter?  That seems unfortunate, since folks using the other formatters won't be able to use the user friendly formats.


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