Hi Nathan,
> 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?
this would be very bad on Solaris: it's been using -R (the native form
of GNU ld -rpath) for ages; changing this now would cause much breakage.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
