bug or feature?: egcs dies too late on syntax error

[Markus Werle]

Philipp Thomas wrote:

> * Markus Werle (markus@lufmech.rwth-aachen.de) [20001122 11:37]:
>
> > Btw.: How do I stop that annoying multi-line warning?
>
> Use -fmessage-length=0 to suppress line wrapping. BTW, 'gcc --help -v' would
> have given you that info too :)

Sorry, this was _not_ my question. Line wrap is not my concern.
I missed a word in my question:

How do I stop that annoying "multi-line comment" warning?
-Wno-comment (from the docs should do this, but that is not true)

You had no answer to the main question of my original post:
Why can't gcc stop at the occurrence of the first error it can detect?

I dislike the pollution of my terminal with annoying,
sometimes misleading warning/error messages
_after_ a syntax error report. There is no need for this.


Markus