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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ td {
<ul>
<li><a href="#diagnostics_display">Controlling How Clang Displays Diagnostics</a></li>
<li><a href="#diagnostics_mappings">Diagnostic Mappings</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#diagnostics_categories">Diagnostic Categories</a><li>
<li><a href="#diagnostics_commandline">Controlling Diagnostics via Command Line Flags</a></li>
<li><a href="#diagnostics_pragmas">Controlling Diagnostics via Pragmas</a></li>
</ul>
@@ -286,6 +287,30 @@ diagnostic. This information tells you the flag needed to enable or disable the
diagnostic, either from the command line or through <a
href="#pragma_GCC_diagnostic">#pragma GCC diagnostic</a>.</dd>
+<!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
+<dt id="opt_fdiagnostics-show-category"><b>-fdiagnostics-show-category=none/id/name</b>:
+Enable printing category information in diagnostic line.</dt>
+<dd>This option, which defaults to "none",
+controls whether or not Clang prints the category associated with a diagnostic
+when emitting it. Each diagnostic may or many not have an associated category,
+if it has one, it is listed in the diagnostic categorization field of the
+diagnostic line (in the []'s).</p>
+
+<p>For example, a format string warning will produce these three renditions
+based on the setting of this option:</p>
+
+<pre>
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat<b>,1</b>]
+ t.c:3:11: warning: conversion specifies type 'char *' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat<b>,Format String</b>]
+</pre>
+
+<p>This category can be used by clients that want to group diagnostics by
+category, so it should be a high level category. We want dozens of these, not
+hundreds or thousands of them.</p>
+</dd>
+
+
<!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<dt id="opt_fdiagnostics-fixit-info"><b>-f[no-]diagnostics-fixit-info</b>:
@@ -393,6 +418,10 @@ it:</p>
<li>An option that indicates how to control the diagnostic (for diagnostics that
support it) [<a
href="#opt_fdiagnostics-show-option">-fdiagnostics-show-option</a>].</li>
+<li>A <a href="#diagnostics_categories">high-level category</a> for the
+ diagnostic for clients that want to group diagnostics by class (for
+ diagnostics that support it) [<a
+ href="#opt_fdiagnostics-show-category">-fdiagnostics-show-category</a>].</li>
<li>The line of source code that the issue occurs on, along with a caret and
ranges that indicate the important locations [<a
href="opt_fcaret-diagnostics">-fcaret-diagnostics</a>].</li>
@@ -407,6 +436,7 @@ it:</p>
<p>For more information please see <a href="#cl_diag_formatting">Formatting of
Diagnostics</a>.</p>
+
<h4 id="diagnostics_mappings">Diagnostic Mappings</h4>
<p>All diagnostics are mapped into one of these 5 classes:</p>
@@ -420,7 +450,23 @@ Diagnostics</a>.</p>
<li>Fatal</li>
</ul></p>
-<h4 id="diagnostics_commandline">Controlling Diagnostics via Command Line Flags</h4>
+<h4 id="diagnostics_categories">Diagnostic Categories</h4>
+
+<p>Though not shown by default, diagnostics may each be associated with a
+ high-level category. This category is intended to make it possible to triage
+ builds that produce a large number of errors or warnings in a grouped way.
+</p>
+
+<p>Categories are not shown by default, but they can be turned on with the
+<a href="#opt_fdiagnostics-show-category">-fdiagnostics-show-category</a> option.
+When set to "<tt>name</tt>", the category is printed textually in the diagnostic
+output. When it is set to "<tt>id</tt>", a category number is printed. The
+mapping of category names to category id's can be obtained by running '<tt>clang
+ --print-diagnostic-categories</tt>'.
+</p>
+
+<h4 id="diagnostics_commandline">Controlling Diagnostics via Command Line
+ Flags</h4>
<p>-W flags, -pedantic, etc</p>
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