From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Scholz To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/3653: -fmessage-length=72 with g++ makes no sense Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:56:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010713205602.16986.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00394.html List-Id: The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Enrico Scholz To: Phil Edwards 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 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