[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

--- Comment #23 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to David Malcolm from comment #21)
> One other issue is that column numbering is rather a mess right now.  From
> my rich-location patch:
> 
> /* Both gcc and emacs number source *lines* starting at 1, but
>    they have differing conventions for *columns*.
> 
>    GCC uses a 1-based convention for source columns,
>    whereas Emacs's M-x column-number-mode uses a 0-based convention.

FWIW, GCC is right and Emacs wrong according to
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html

Emacs could simply do the transformation itself.