RFC: Named warnings

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard@inwind.it> writes:

| At 15.21 24/01/2003 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
| 
| >>What do we know about prior art for other compilers?  At the
| >
| >That's a large part of why I'm advocating numbers.
| >
| >All the prior art I know of (which includes at least EDG, Borland,
| >Microsoft, several versions of Lint, and CenterLine error-checking
| >products) used numbers.
| 
| Does anyone knows of a compiler which at least *tried* to use
| mnemonics instead of numbers ?

CodeWarrior has been mentioned.

| Or does everyone just started with numbers, which are simpler to
| implement but less user firendly ?

I would tend to believe that; if you think about it, short options were
the way to go some ages ago, now we have long options :-)

-- Gaby