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Re: C++ PATCH:



On 2005-02-23, at 20:25, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

of source code in the diagnostic. That is based on the GNU standard for diagnostics. Other people seem to have built tools on top of that too.

Please note that there exists only a GNU *convention* for error reporting.
A not particularly well tough out one. One would for example welcome if the error
reporting would refer to particular points in the ANSI papers by reference like
TenDRA and some other compilers do/did. A *standard* is something very different
from what we have here. Don't get me wrong the way GCC reports isn't a disaster
I rather think it could be indeed improved significantly.



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