Improving C++ error output?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> writes:

| On 21 Dec 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| | Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> writes:
| |
| | | A few years ago, I worked a lot with the IBM AIX C++ compiler
| | | which had a nice convention for error messages.  Each
| | | line would contain either: (S), (I), or (W), where I believe that:
| | | (S) was for fatal errors
| | | (W) was for non-fatal warning messages
| | | (I) was for informational messages.
| |
| | GCC has prefixes:
| |
| |   "error: " for hard errors;
| |   "warning: " for warnings;
| |   "internal compiler error: " for fatal errors;
| |   "note: " for informational diagnostics.
| 
| Yes, I know that (at least the first 3 of those).
| And it's pretty good at using them -- but not all of the time,
| unless I'm just suffering from using gcc 2.96 instead of
| gcc 3.x.  Can someone tell me if that's the case?

GCC-2.96 only has the "warning: " prefix.

-- Gaby