[Bug ada/81328] error messages not in expected order

[ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81328

Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2017-07-06
                 CC|                            |ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org
            Summary|Wrong order of error        |error messages not in
                   |messages                    |expected order
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #1 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> GNAT provides an error list for my erroneous input in wrong order.

No, it's not "wrong", it's just the natural order of the source code, which is
perfectly reasonable.

> I sent a minimized code where this is not a problem, but I got this GNAT
> behavior in real code, what lead me to try to first fix the first error
> (which in reality was caused by the second error), but it was unexpected
> that to fix the first error I first need to fix the second error.

And you didn't manage to fix your code in the end?

> The output order of compilation errors should be such that the programmer
> would be able to fix the errors in the order of compiler output, rather than
> to make the programmer to guess that he needs first look into the next error.

This sounds interesting, albeit probably a lot of work so will never happen.