GCC Error Codes

[rubicant rubicant]

[..snip..]

> 1) What if the same warning or error message comes from two places?
> Your numbering system would make this hard to identify.  I would
> suggest gathering up all the errors and warnings from all the files,
> remove duplicates, then proceed with the numbering.

That is the plan, only there is allot of work.. i should come up with
something to automate it.

> 2) AIX (yea, I know thats a ick term) attempts to have a consistent
> numbering system across the whole platform.  This is done by
> splitting the number into two pieces: aaaa-bbbbbb: where aaaa is
> assigned to a particular program and bbbbbbb is the unique number
> within the program (as you described).  Perhaps the aaaa part is what
> you intended for the 'c' in your example below.  I would make it more
> explicit.  e.g. gcc1001 at least.

The `c' was a example for the C programming language, so the
error/warning message gets into a category rather indicating the
program and do you have any idea how they do it in AIX?

> I don't know how GNU does internationalization.  But in AIX-land,
> this is the first step.  The messages are in the code and also in a
> message file.  If no language is specified in the user's environment,
> the message in the code is used.  If a language is specified (I'm
> talking about the user's spoken language), then the message is looked
> up in a file based upon the LANG and NLS environment variables.
>
> My warning is that this triggers a somewhat substantial support
> effort.  As new messages are added, their translations should be
> created and added to each language file.

Sorry i don't see how language support has to do anything with this.
Could you explain?

> With all that aside, as a user of gcc, I think it is a great idea --
> especially if it crept over into all of GNU's products.

Great to hear that! I'm planning to set up a website(wiki?) so more
people can actually work on it. Making patches (or a auto-patching
script) is the plan so you can get the gcc-core and run the tool on
it. Other programming languages can follow up if this works out and if
there is actually interest for it.