According to the GNU error-message standards, error messages should not
end with periods. GFortran has a dozen or so errors and warnings that
violate this rule, which I found with the following grep patterns:
grep -A3 'gfc_error' * | grep '\."'
grep -A3 'gfc_warn' * | grep '\."'
Whether or not this rule is appropriate for the verbose error messages
of the form that GFortran emits (as opposed to the terse single-line
ones envisioned by the GNU standards) is debatable, I think, but in any
case it's probably best to be consistent. Thus, the attached patch at
least applies consistency.
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2006-11-15 Brooks Moses <brooks.moses@codesourcery.com>
* data.c: Remove trailing periods from error messages.
* decl.c: Likewise.
* expr.c: Likewise.
* io.c: Likewise.
* match.c: Likewise.
* module.c: Likewise.
* options.c: Likewise.
* resolve.c: Likewise.
* symbol.c: Likewise.
* trans-io.c: Likewise.
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Regression tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu. Ok for trunk?
- Brooks