On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 3:37 PM Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I had a need to add a new type of informative message on the modules
> branch, with an option to enable it.  The message is not a warning or an
> error, but just 'hey, you asked if X happens.  It happens just here'.
> This is emitted as a note.  I chose -fnote-$NAME for the option, but
> that wasn't a very satisfactory solution.
>
> I have learnt that clang has -R$NAME options for exactly this kind of
> informative note.  Presumably with -Rno-$NAME negation.
>
> Presumably we could also use this for optimization notes -- 'I failed to
> vectorize this loop because ...'
>
> thoughts?

We have -fopt-info-X-Y for this.

>
> nathan
>
> --
> Nathan Sidwell

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