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Re: Better GCC diagnostics

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:42:28 +0200
Subject: Re: Better GCC diagnostics
References: <6c33472e0808150709u9420a23s6391cbc669c8c562@mail.gmail.com> <m3myjee400.fsf@google.com> <6c33472e0808150819o73973f9ex3c024fb4c0eb7bcc@mail.gmail.com> <m3bpzudsah.fsf@google.com>

> That is clear.  Thanks.  I personally would be perfectly happy if the
> compiler said
>     bug.c:4.COLUMN: error: called object is not a function
> That is, fixing the compiler to includes parts of the source code in
> the error message itself is, for me, of considerably lower priority
> than fixing the compiler to generate good column numbers.

I agree. Any decent IDE or source editor will point to the proper location
once you have the correct column number.

Arno

References:
- Better GCC diagnostics
  - From: Manuel López-Ibáñez
- Re: Better GCC diagnostics
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: Better GCC diagnostics
  - From: Manuel López-Ibáñez
- Re: Better GCC diagnostics
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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