From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Guerby To: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au Cc: dewar@gnat.com, Anshil@gmx.net, aoliva@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Warning Messages (was: Is this a gcc bug?) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <200101131914.UAA01872@ulmo> References: <20010113031522.B284B34D81@nile.gnat.com> <20010113142913.A30791@hg.cs.mu.oz.au> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00870.html An alternative solution for warnings where the only valid hint is one paragraph long (or more ;-), is to put a really short one, even if mysterious, plus "see GCC documentation for more information" or "GCC documentation has more information", and have sections "Common Warnings for Language X" in the compiler manual detailing the issues. Such a solution would solve cleanly the education issue, and the "meta-education" issue: there's a manual dude! ;-). I often found that people ask themselves questions the first time they see a warning, then the messages is just an id and it's better when it's short in listings. -- Laurent Guerby