[Bug c/31673] "`for' loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode" is confusing

[j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de]

------- Comment #5 from j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de  2007-04-23 22:05 -------
(In reply to comment #4)

> Sounds like this is a case of not reading the documentation again.

Well, unlike many others, he even *knew* something about C99, yet he
did not grok the error message's content.  And he's even an English
native speaker, so what do you guess might a non-native speaker run
into when trying to parse that sentence?  And no, don't expect the
translations to become better than the original. ;-)

Negated hints (``outside C99 mode'') are almost never easy to
understand.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31673