[PR fortran/60091, patch] - Misleading error messages in rank-2 pointer assignment to rank-1 target

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:19:07PM +0100, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Hi Harald,
> 
> > how about the attached version?  It is quite verbose and produces
> > messages like
> > 
> > Error: Expected list of 'lower-bound-expr:' or list of
> > 'lower-bound-expr:upper-bound-expr' at (1)
> 
> I think this way of specifying error messages
> 
> +#define BOUNDS_SPEC_LIST "list of %<lower-bound-expr:upper-bound-expr%>"
> 
> ...
> 
> +		  gfc_error ("Rank remapping requires a "
> +			     BOUNDS_SPEC_LIST " at %L",
>   			     &lvalue->where);
> 
> will cause trouble in translation of the error messages.
> 

I agree with Thomas here.  We should try to make the
translation of error message as painless as possible.

-- 
Steve