From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12019 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2007 21:05:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 11983 invoked by uid 48); 23 Apr 2007 21:05:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20070423210531.11982.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug c/31673] "`for' loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode" is confusing In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org From: "j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de" Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg01722.txt.bz2 ------- Comment #5 from j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de 2007-04-23 22:05 ------- (In reply to comment #4) > Sounds like this is a case of not reading the documentation again. Well, unlike many others, he even *knew* something about C99, yet he did not grok the error message's content. And he's even an English native speaker, so what do you guess might a non-native speaker run into when trying to parse that sentence? And no, don't expect the translations to become better than the original. ;-) Negated hints (``outside C99 mode'') are almost never easy to understand. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31673