Silly C++ formatting of error messages.

[Mo McKinlay]

On 5 Apr 2000, Per Bothner wrote:

# We could use a flag to control this style.  For now I would
# make the default off.  If people like it, and emacs is fixed,
# we could make the default on.

I'd considered a flag, but foolishly neglected to mention it (entirely my
fault). This is another situation where a gcc rc-file would be useful -
even if the default was 'on', I'd personally prefer to see it off.

Continuing on the subject of rc files, I'd like to add:

If this was implemented, there should be a command-line option, such as:

-rcfile <filename>

Abbreviated to:

@<filename>

Which would override the default ~/.gccrc (or whatever), and would also
allow makefiles to circumvent *some* problems regardling maximum
command-line lengths.

Mo.

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Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect              inter/open
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