Re: [patch, fortran] Add -fmax-errors option to limit the number of errors emitted.

[Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>]

Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:57:09PM -0800, Brooks Moses wrote:
> > +static void
> > +gfc_increment_error_count (void)
> > +{
> > +  errors++;
> > +  if ((gfc_option.max_errors != 0) && (errors >= gfc_option.max_errors))
> > +    gfc_fatal_error ("Error count reached limit of %d.", gfc_option.max_errors);
>
> Quick question wrt the punctuation. It seems that the majority but not
> all of warning/error messages omit the trailing dot.
> Should this be made consistent, either to add or to omit the
> punctuation at the end of these messages?

I would think it should be consistent, one way or the other.  My 
preference would be to include the punctuation (particularly in cases 
like this where the error message is essentially a complete sentence), 
but I think the GCC standard is probably to omit it.

(The GNU error-message standards [1] say to omit the period, but they 
also say not to use a capital letter at the beginning when the message 
follows a filename because the filename is the true start of the 
sentence.  This, however, is not really standard English style -- when 
one has a partial sentence, a colon, and then a clause after it that is 
a full sentence, the clause normally starts with a capital letter 
despite being in the middle of the sentence.  So I admit to harboring a 
bit of mistrust towards their suggestion to omit the period.)

Thanks for noticing that!
- Brooks


[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html