libg++-2.8.1.3 and gcc-20000220 CVS

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Horst" == Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:

    Horst> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> said:
    >> I think we should make the line-wrapping stuff always output at
    >> least k characters after the prefix.  That way, even if the
    >> prefix is ridiculously long we don't just wrap the message on
    >> every line.  Let's make `k' be 32 or so, for now.

    Horst> Why not chop down the prefix, to something like basename(1)
    Horst> does perhaps?

There's arguments both ways.  You need the full prefix to make some
tools that parse output work correctly.  The EDG front-end does a much
nicer error formatting than we do: one of their tricks is not put the
full line number on each line.  That, however, is against some GNU
standards for error output, if I recall correctly.

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