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Re: [PATCH] caret diagnostics

Chris Lattner wrote:

On Aug 14, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Robert Dewar wrote:

BTW, I am all in favor of caret output, it's not the default in
gnat, the default is more like the C default, but -gnatv gives
output like:

And I'd hope we could keep things that way for both C and Ada, but make

Please don't forget C++.

C++ is a completely lost battle. I had a patch to handle all the %s in the source base, but my approach (which basically implied adding translatable strings for "a class", "to a class", "with a class", "in a class", etc. to account for languages with cases) was considered bad.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-06/msg01620.html for my patch. I cannot find the answer.

Paolo

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