RFC: Improving Clang’s Diagnostics

Abstract Clang diagnostics are alright. That is: they get the job done more often than not, but leave a lot of room for improvement, particularly for non-experts. This document details how one could improve Clang so that its diagnostics cater to a much broader audience of programmers. Summary We propose to change the way in which diagnostics are presented to users, so that they might have better user-experience: Add a new Clang diagnostic engine that emits machine-parsable Static Analysis...