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Re: Improving C++ error output?
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> writes:
| A few years ago, I worked a lot with the IBM AIX C++ compiler
| which had a nice convention for error messages. Each
| line would contain either: (S), (I), or (W), where I believe that:
| (S) was for fatal errors
| (W) was for non-fatal warning messages
| (I) was for informational messages.
GCC has prefixes:
"error: " for hard errors;
"warning: " for warnings;
"internal compiler error: " for fatal errors;
"note: " for informational diagnostics.
-- Gaby