On 13/03/2008, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Manuel López-Ibáñez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On 08/03/2008, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Another approach would be to only use the carets for parse errors, > >> which is where they are the most helpful. For a middle-end error like > >> "assuming signed overflow does not occur when simplifying > >> multiplication" a caret pointer might be more misleading than > >> otherwise, as one thing we know for sure is that it would not point at > >> a multiplication operator. > >> > > > > I don't get this. So, what is it pointing to? > > > I don't know for sure. I would guess that it would point to the start > of the statement in which the overflow is found. The warning is going > to use the location from some statement being simplified, not from the > operator. >
Why? Isn't the operator available at that point? Cheers, Manuel.
