Re: bootstrap/3653: -fmessage-length=72 with g++ makes no sense

[Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3653; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/3653: -fmessage-length=72 with g++ makes no sense
Date: 13 Jul 2001 22:49:22 +0200

 Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
 
 > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:23:14PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
 > > say it should be off by *default* because it breaks compatibility
 > 
 > I really should just resist the impluse to ask, but oh well:
 > 
 > How does limiting by default to 72 characters /break/ compatibility?
 
 Previous gcc versions have not done line-wrapping by default and there
 are tools relying on an one-line-per-error format (in the maillists I
 have read the `-fmessage-length=0' was added explicitly to test-scripts
 and I gave an emacs-example already).
 
 It's not the number 72; it's every number between 1 and 1000 (I think
 error-messages having >1000 columns are exceptions and can be ignored ;))
 
 
 
 Enrico