Re: Emacs and GFortran

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

Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > FYI: I just committed a patch to the GCC 4.2 and 4.3 branches that 
>  > provides column numbers in the error messages.  The format is as per the 
>  > following example:
>  > 
>  >       ~/temp/>gfortran hello.F
>  >       hello.F:3.6:
>  > 
>  >             write(*,) 'Hello!' 
>  > 
>  >                  1
>  >       Error: Syntax error in WRITE statement at (1)
>
> Thanks, but the error seems to be in column 11 i.e in Emacs the first column
> is 0 and the first six (blank) columns are counted too.

Oh, oops -- that's my fault; I edited the error message quoted in an old 
post, rather than actually running it to generate a real message, and 
missed the blank columns when I was hand-counting.  The blanks would 
very definitely be counted in a real error message.  Thanks for catching 
that!

There is still an off-by-one error; we number the first column as 1 
rather than 0.  Given that there's a very strong tradition in Fortran of 
numbering columns starting with 1, and that off-by-one errors in column 
location are within the noise level of locating things (given that 
nearly all errors are several columns wide), I think it makes more sense 
overall to keep it the way it currently is.

- Brooks