* Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:39:57PM CEST: > > FWIW -- the gcc-output-parsing tools I care most about are actually > usually parsing the output of 'make', which is already full of random > undigestible text that must be ignored. Caret diagnostics are > extremely unlike to break these tools.
But there are editors which are able to parse caret diagnostics from compilers. It's quite helpful for them if caret diagnostic output is consistent among compiler/compiler-like tools. I care about editors :) Cheers, Ralf