On 2024-05-12 07:20:13 +0000, avih via Tinycc-devel wrote:
>  Personally I don't think this is required, but I don't pretend to
> represent the tinycc maintainers' opinion. If it is added, however,
> then the following should probably be taken into account:
> 
> - This mostly works, but it won't work on all terminals, for instance
>  the original DEC VT100 has bold but doesn't have colors.
> 
> - It's probably better to support disabling it by means other than
>  piping stderr into "cat" (so that stdout is not a tty). I.e. using
>  an option, probably with value always/never/auto. Preferably it
>  should also respect NO_COLOR by default. see https://no-color.org/ .

In any case, it should automatically detect whether colors are
supported by the terminal (something similar to what "tput colors"
does), something that GCC fails to do.

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