Silly C++ formatting of error messages.

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Wed Apr 5 12:58:00 GMT 2000


At one word per line, don't you think the following is just a little bit 
silly ...


/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: Internal
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: compiler
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: error
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: in
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: `get_insn_template',
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: at
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: final.c:2035
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: Please
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: submit
/automount/gosh/home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs_devel/gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/
g++.law/profile1.C:0: a full

(If the file name is longer than a line, or perhaps not more than 20 
columns less than a line, then I think it would be better to keep the 
message on a single line.)





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