GCC suggestions needed

[Tom St Denis]

Niklaus wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I've an online judge system where i take the source code submitted
> by an user and compile it to an executable and then run it against a
> predetermined input to produce    an output which is checked against a
> predetermined output. This determines the results as Correct, Wrong or
> Compile error.
>
>     The languages are C,C++,java.
>
>     Please suggest solutions for the below problems
>
>    1) How to tell gcc to stop after the first error. I use both gcc
> 4.2 and gcc 3.4. I tried -Wfatal-error and -Wfatal-error it says
> unrecognized option.
>   

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I'm going to suggest for the good of all humanity, that the person who 
is judging a comp.sci challenge should probably be able to script up an 
automated testing harness such that you can do something like

for f in *.zip; do ./run_test.sh $f; done

At the high level (say submissions are zip files or whatever) and then 
your shell script unpacks, tries to compile, run, compares, etc.

Just saying...

Tom