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Re: Improving C++ error output?
- From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:51:51 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Improving C++ error output?
Hi Gaby,
Thanks for the clarification. I'll look forward to the consistent
messages from gcc 3.3.
--
~Randy
On 22 Dec 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> writes:
|
| | On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:16:29AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| | > GCC has prefixes:
| | >
| | > "error: " for hard errors;
| | > "warning: " for warnings;
| | > "internal compiler error: " for fatal errors;
| | > "note: " for informational diagnostics.
| |
| |
| | Maybe I'm failing to understand something, but
| | these prefixes do not seem to be consistently used.
| |
| | g++ -v
| | gcc version 3.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20021119 (release)
|
| The 3.3.x series certainly has it; I think the main reason 3.2.x does
| not have it is that the branch was frozen at the time (~ 2001-06).
|
| | #include <stdio.h>
| |
| | int
| | main(int argc, char *argv)
| | {
| | printf("%d\n", );
| | }
| |
| | a.cpp: In function `int main(int, char*)':
| | a.cpp:6: syntax error before `)' token
|
| soliton% cat cr.C && g++ -v && g++ cr.C
| #include <stdio.h>
|
| int
| main(int argc, char *argv)
| {
| printf("%d\n", );
| }
| Reading specs from /home/gdr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/specs
| Configured with: /home/gdr/redhat/egcs/configure --prefix=/home/gdr
| --enable-languages=c++ --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix :
| (reconfigured)
| Thread model: posix
| gcc version 3.3 20021207 (experimental)
| cr.C: In function `int main(int, char*)':
| cr.C:6: error: parse error before `)' token