https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88512
--- Comment #4 from Marc Glisse <glisse at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jonny Grant from comment #3) > Updated output I had executed from STL with clear candidate suggestions: > > $ g++ -Wall -o stl_string stl_string.cpp > stl_string.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: > stl_string.cpp:7:27: error: no matching function for call to > ‘std::string::erase(std::size_t&, std::string::iterator)’ > str.erase(s, str.end()); > ^ > candidates are: > std::string& std::string::erase(size_type index = 0, size_type count = > npos) > std::string::iterator std::string::erase(const_iterator first, > const_iterator last) > std::string::iterator std::string::erase(const_iterator position) Maybe for the standard library... For user code I would still want a reminder somewhere of what size_type, iterator, const_iterator and string are aliases for. Besides, gcc currently tells you why the candidate was not picked, which is also useful. What I expect would work is to have the message as a tree that originally only shows the error message, but where you can click to show the candidates, click a candidate to show why it fails, click a type to see what it aliases, etc. But that's only doable through an IDE.
