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Re: Degraded C++ error messages.
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:
| On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:11:34PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Are you saying that
| >
| > troep.cc:6: error: request for member `base' in `*(&std::vector<_Tp,
| > _Alloc>::begin() [with _Tp = int, _Alloc =
| > std::allocator<int>]())->__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<_Iterator,
| > _Container>::operator->() const [with _Iterator = int*, _Container =
| > std::vector<int, std::allocator<int> >]()', which is of non-aggregate type `
| > int'
| >
| > is more readale than
| >
| > troep.cc:6: request for member `base' in `*v.vector<int,allocator<int> >::begin()', which is of non-aggregate type `int'
| >
| > ?
|
| No, sorry if I misunderstood you. I think that the error messages
| of 2.95.3 were near perfect. The latter (as given in the above quote)
| is definitely better readable.
That is what I call expression-based messages. Sorry if I didn't word it
clearly.
-- Gaby