Re: improved message

[craig at jcb-sc dot com]

>  > I'd rather leave that to Jeff or someone else more aware of issues
>  > like how it might affect the testsuite.  Either version is fine by
>  > me, by the way.
>Well, I'd like to settle down from constantly changing the diagnostics
>from the compiler.  Every time we change it, we run the risk of screwing
>ourselves or someone else that has code to parse the compiler's output.
[...]
>  > One concern I have: maybe it'd reduce confusion if the bug-reporting
>  > diagnostic, as well as the installation documentation, throughout egcs --
>  > basically anything with a URL to the EGCS site -- include, in the URL,
>  > the version number of EGCS (GCC) somehow.
>Not a bad idea.

Indeed, we should probably do a comprehensive "study" on the whole
shebang, from online WWW docs to docs that come with the release to
how messages from the compiler link up to those to internationaliation.

Then, once we have all the related requirements together, we can craft
a One True Compiler Death Message (OTCDM ;-), and change the current
message to that, once and for all.

One of the benefits of this approach is it allows us to duck the issue
of making any changes in the meantime.  ;/

        tq vm, (burley)