Improving C++ error output?

[Neil Booth]

Craig Rodrigues wrote:-

> One way that GCC could make this type of system much easier to
> develop is to format error messages consistently so that they can be parsed.
> Right now, the formatting and content of GCC error messages seems
> to be ad hoc. 

I've been pushing for this for a while, since we want to move to
caret diagnostics, which will be multiline, and quote the relevant
line of the source code.

Neil.