Clang error recovery
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Apr 6 15:04:43 PDT 2010
bearophile wrote:
> Clang:
>
>
> #include <inttypes.h>
> int64 x;
>
>
> t.c:2:1: error: unknown type name 'int64'; did you mean 'int64_t'?
> int64 x;
> ^~~~~
> int64_t
>
> -----------------
>
> dmd:
>
> I am not sure if this is the same situation:
>
> alias uint uint64_t;
> int foo(uint64 x) {
> return x * 2;
> }
> void main() {}
>
>
> dmd prints:
>
> temp.d(2): Error: identifier 'uint64' is not defined
dmd's spell checker only looks a distance of one, and uint64 is a distance of
two from uint64_t. This is trivially changed, but I didn't do the longer
distances because of the annoyances of false positives - variable name spelling
doesn't work like english language spelling.
The issue is not, as has been suggested, that dmd doesn't do spelling checks on
types.
There's really nothing "amazing" about a spell checker, it's just a better idea
than not doing it.
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