RFR: 8220632: Suggest recompiling with a larger value of -Xmaxerrs/-Xmaxwarns if diagnostics were suppressed

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 3/15/19 10:28 AM, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:19 AM Jonathan Gibbons 
> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     For discussion ...
>
>     Rather than giving a specific number, how about something more like:
>
>     "consider using the -Xmaxwarns option to increase the number of
>     messages
>     displayed"
>
>
> Choosing a specific number modulo 100 was somewhat arbitrary, but I 
> was trying to anticipate the question of what the current value of 
> -Xmaxwarns is, especially if the user isn't already setting it and is 
> relying on the default.
>
> Another way to approach that would be for the note to also mention the 
> total number of diagnostics, so -Xmaxwarns could be raised past that 
> number if the user wanted to see all diagnostics.

You could report the current limit and the total number.

-- Jon

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