GCC 7 To Continue Improving Debug Messages, More Helpful Assembly Output

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Phoronix: GCC 7 To Continue Improving Debug Messages, More Helpful Assembly Output

Early on LLVM's Clang compiler offered much better debugging / error messages than GCC but in the past few years the GNU Compiler Collection developers have been working on generating more helpful messages too. With GCC 7 there will will be more improvements in this space and more...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-7-Better-Debug-Msg-ASM

[carewolf]

Nice. I was looking for something like the new improved verbose assembler the other day. Though it turned out you could get it, just not from gcc, but gdb's versbose disassembler had that informatively annotated assembler.

[jacob]

It's amazing how LLVM and GCC keep giving each other a run for their money. I love this!

[hoohoo]

Good news. I always had trouble speaking anglebracketese.