Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* 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 :)
Makes more sense for editors to parse column numbers, which they already
do just fine, seems pointless for them to mess with carets.
Cheers,
Ralf
