-v for error only
Nicholas Wilson
iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 19 12:44:26 UTC 2018
On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 08:40:03 UTC, DigitalDesigns wrote:
> There needs to be a switch, if their isn't one already, where
> only errors are verbose.
>
> When I use the -v switch it not only expands the error trace
> like it should but also adds all kinds of additional
> meaningless info(semantic3, module list, etc). All this
> additional information is generally useless and obscures the
> main point of using -v which is to get a deeper error trace.
>
> When doing a lot of compile time work and using pragma msg, it
> can make things worse.
>
> It would be nice if there was something in between the two
> extremes: Only shows longer error traces and only most
> important compiler verbosity. Better yet, implement a verbosity
> level -v1, ..., -v9 give 9 zones and one can enable any number
> of zones -v158 enables the errors for zones 1 5 and 8. Could
> use hex for more zones: -v14aef.
>
> Anyways, I guess it's more of a dream feature...
The info is not useless, it very useful when debugging the
compiler :)
What additional info do you get with -v that helps?
(I ask having only really used LDC's -vv for debugging it (which
produces waaaay more output than DMD))
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