On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Daniel B Mosesson <dmosess1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Diagnostics and > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ClangDiagnosticsComparison there should be a > way to get caret diagnostics in gcc 4.8. I have just checked out and > built gcc 20120314 (experimental) [trunk revision 185382], and I > cannot seem to get the examples to work. When I try to use the > -fdiagnostics-show-caret option listed in the better_diagnostics page, > gcc informs me that the option is not recognized. > > Is there a way to troubleshoot this issue, or this by design? It works for me. In fact, caret diagnostics are on by default in 4.8. Show us exactly what you did and exactly what happened. Ian