On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:54:52 +0000 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > That type annotation produced by g++ would be usable by external editors, > > etc. > > That's a pretty big assumption, and the file would be useless without > editor support (I realise there's a chicken and egg situation here.) > > Doesn't DWARF debug info already contain all that info anyway?
The same argument can be used in reverse: the -M dependency output is in principle extractible from DWARF information (or could be provided by plugin), but GCC does provide it natively. My point is that type annotation is a too useful information to be provided by GCC only in contrived ways (like using plugins, or with an external filter on DWARF). So I think that it is worth a single, short, option. Perhaps we could enhance the spec file so that short options could be translated (by the gcc/gcc.c driver) into longer ones involving plugins. When that happens, we coule even make the -M output driven by plugins. Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mine, sont seulement les miennes} ***
