NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/11459

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From: [e-mail] (David B.Anderson)
Subject: Re: cc errors
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:57:31 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (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.
>Any way to force this output format?
>(this is still 4.0.1)
>
>-- frans

Sorry you don't like the messages.  While I do :-), it clearly would be
desirable to give users control over verbosity.   Can't promise when
that will happen.   I believe it will happen, though.

The dashes attempt to show exactly where the compiler thinks the error is.
If there are lots of dashes then you have very long source lines (after
preprocessing).    On really long lines the dashes are sometimes not
helpful.   Tough for the compiler to know which are useful.

The present output of *multiple* messages on a single error inflates the
output a lot.  This was never *desirable*, but did make compiler maintenance
easier (for reasons I won't go into).

Thanks for the input.

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson             [phone]             [e-mail] ]