On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 10/17/2011 01:08 PM, Richard Guenther wrote: >> >> The initial patch, split between rev. 31343 and 31999 indeed added >> >> + /* Enable automatic line wrapping by default */ >> + set_message_length (72); >> >> to C++ lang_decode_option. Later it got appearantly lost somehow, >> probably during some of the Great Option Reorgs. > > Wow, 31343, I didn't look back so much.
I never understood why you doubted that the default was 72 way before I added the C pretty printer. I can understand you don't like it; but that should not involve doubting the facts. > Now the issue is whether, after *so* > many years with 0, people would *really* consider seeing the default changed > to 72, at variance with C and all the other front-ends. Again this argument is making a sort of revisionism. The 72 default was added to g++, and other front-ends (in reality at the time, only C could be affected) decided not to. Over the years, we have moved to share more and more codes with other front-ends. The fact that other front-ends have been using more and more of the code that was designed for g++ should not be argument to change the default for g++. It should be other reasons. > I seriously doubt > it. Do we have strong evidence of that? For example, is there something > similar in other C++ front-end? > > Paolo. >