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Re: Feature request: "Error" string in error messages
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: "Philip Dunstan" <phil at philipdunstan dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gnu dot org>
- Date: 13 Sep 2002 12:32:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: Feature request: "Error" string in error messages
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <004101c25ac9$ac47fb00$eb5c08cb@nixltd.com.au>
"Philip Dunstan" <phil@philipdunstan.com> writes:
| Is it possible to add some sort of "Error:" tag to error messages
| outputted by gcc? This would facillitate easier filtering of errors
| in an automated build process where -i is used..
|
| This could be set up as a configurable string prepended to error
| messages so that the existing default output format does not change.
Erik Schnetter <schnetter@uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
| An incremental search for "error:" is what I wanted to use for a
| long time.
That is a reasonable request. GCC-3.x, with x >= 3, just does that.
Even more, future versions of GCC may output other diagnostics like
"note: ", "debug: " and such.
-- Gaby