error messages with ranges

Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
Sun Oct 18 03:10:00 GMT 2009


    "Argument locations" because they need to handle translations to other 
    languages as well.  With the specific phrase not being significant, it is 
    of course possible to put other phrases there if it's felt useful to 
    attach a natural language name to the other locations in that way.

Yes.  However, we could also publish a list of the phrases that GCC
puts there, with a description of what the ranges mean.  Then an IDE
could optionally recognize some of these phrases and do something
special for them.



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