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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: cc errors
- Message-ID: <nqqile8@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul27.103035.26247@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:54:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.103035.26247@bernina.ethz.ch>, hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
- > I don't like the lengthy error messages from the c-compiler.
- > They fill the screen
- > with lots of dashes even if one makes only a few mistakes.
- > This behavior is *NOT* what is described in the ansi-c manual from sgi.
- > there is some page describing exactly what the format of the
- > error messages is. The format described there is not the format I get.
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- I think the dashes for syntax errors are very nice. They allow you to
- see exactly where the compiler decided you are wrong. There is no
- other mechanism that will unambigiously show where the error is,
- regardless of screen width, and without forcing you to manually count
- characters.
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- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
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