Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Posted Jan 19, 2015 9:07 UTC (Mon) by Frej (guest, #4165)
In reply to: Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC by Lionel_Debroux
Parent article: Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Clang error messages tend to be more helpful as well.

Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Posted Jan 19, 2015 16:30 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

Everybody's diagnostics have been getting better. Over my career we've gone from "Oh! This new system tells you where the problem is, rather than just saying Syntax Error" to GCC telling me that (a) My fscanf() format string seems not to match the provided parameters (b) what the format seems to ask for (c) what the parameter I supplied is (d) how to turn off the warning if I don't care.

The tools I have today are many times better than the tools I had twenty, ten, even five years ago.