>I kind of liked the old method, since it shows exactly where the
>errors occured. Interestingly, this format for error messages is
>identical to that on IBM's VM/CMS C compiler...
On AIX 3.2 the user can choose which format of the error messages he prefers.
This copied from Info:
-qsrcmsg | -qnosrcmsg
Specifies the style of diagnostic messages. Specifying -qsrcmsg displays the source lines containing errors along with the messages. A line with pointers to the column positions of the errors is also displayed.
The default is -qnosrcmsg, which displays concise messages that can be parsed. Instead of giving the source line and pointers for each error, the name of the C source file with the error, the line and column position of the error, and the message itself are shown on a single line.
The #pragma options keyword is SRCMSG.
See "XL Diagnostic Messages" for a detailed description of the format of diagnostic messages.