[Bug other/19165] New: (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[Bug other/19165] New: (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[walles at mailblocks dot com]

I've started looking at using the Eclipse CDT for my C development.  One thing
the CDT does is parse the diagnostic messages printed by gcc.

To determine whether a message is an error or a warning, the CDT checks whether
the message starts with "warning:".  If it does, it is considered a warning,
otherwise an error.

However, since I'm using a Swedish locale, my warning messages start with
"varning:" rather than "warning:", making the CDT heuristic fail.

I would like gcc to mark warnings and errors in a non-locale dependent way,
easily parseable by frontends such as the CDT.

I did read
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/Language-Independent-Options.html
and AFAICT there isn't currently any switch for making gcc classify its
diagnostic messages this way.

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           Summary: (Natural) language independent error / warning
                    classification
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.4.3
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: other
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: walles at mailblocks dot com
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-12-27 14:29 -------
I don't think we should do this because the warnings are for people not for IDEs.  Maybe the IDEs 
should use the translated message instead aka use the .pot file from gcc to do the parsing :).

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           Keywords|                            |diagnostic
           Priority|P2                          |P3


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[walles at mailblocks dot com]

------- Additional Comments From walles at mailblocks dot com  2004-12-27 17:51 -------
The IDE wants to present gcc's messages to people, so it's not as if the IDE
wants to understand the messages themselves (except whether they are warnings or
errors).  Now that I read what I wrote again I can see how it sounded as if the
CDT tries to do more than that, but it doesn't.  It just wants to do
errors-vs-warnings classification.

The reason it wants to be able to tell errors from warnings is that it wants to
highlight the errors more than the warnings.  Unforturnately no sane way of
doing that seems to exist currently :-(.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-03-29 01:46 -------
What about changing the IDEs so they understand the natural language warning/error/note 
classification instead?

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[walles at mailblocks dot com]

------- Additional Comments From walles at mailblocks dot com  2005-03-29 08:04 -------
That's what they are doing currently, but it works only for English :-(.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165

[Bug other/19165] (Natural) language independent error / warning classification

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-15 21:20 -------
Confirmed.

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|                            |1
   Last reconfirmed|0000-00-00 00:00:00         |2005-07-15 21:20:47
               date|                            |


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19165