Help Message Manual

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 11 July 2012 04:06, Arthur Schwarz <aschwarz1309@att.net> wrote:
> Is there any book, manual, notes, etc. that contains a listing of all diagnostic
> messages with some description of their meanings. I'm dying here with the
> messaging and other than Google, have difficulty understanding some of them. My
> fault not yours. It would help to have a document. I've looked around at
> gcc.gnu.org and nothing pops out at me.
>
> Less we get into some odd state where someone says "the messages say what they
> mean" or the "message meaning is obvious", there is at least one loader message
> where this is not the case. A document would be helpful.

The best you'll find is probably:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/VerboseDiagnostics
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_94.html

But if you're looking for a linker error then it's not a GCC error, so
that might not help.