* Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:52:24PM CEST: > I'm sympathetic to the idea that switching to caret output by default > will break things. However, I don't think that GCS-style ranges are > necessarily any more reality-proof, because I am skeptical that most > tool developers read this document when deciding how to parse GCC's > output.
The GCS document helps not only to let tool developers know how output of programs they parse looks like; more importantly, it helps ensure that output from different programs is consistent. If the GCS-style is not powerful enough to meet GCC's needs, then please let's not only improve GCC, but the GCS document also, so that other programs improve compatibly. Cheers, Ralf
