GCC 8 Compiler Offering More Helpful Debug Messages, Usability Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 8 Compiler Offering More Helpful Debug Messages, Usability Improvements

Red Hat's David Malcom has outlined some of the usability improvements coming with the imminent release of GCC 8...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-8-Better-Usability

[hoohoo]

Any improvement in GCC error messages would be welcome. G++ is a very good compiler, but in projects where we used g++ we would sometimes run problem code through clang++ just to get more easily understood messages.

[cl333r]

Now errors in C++ templates are only 6 pages long instead of 7.