From: kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas)
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: i18n of egcs
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372e3071.5188386@mailer.gwdg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199904291516.QAA16770@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:16:54 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
>Well, if at any time in the future we add an option to give verbose
>warnings / error messages that quote the appropriate section and
>paragraph of the standard, these options will be different.
Well, I at least pray that I'll never see that day. Quite a few messages
current compilers spit out are too closely modeled after the respective
parts of the standard and thus readily understandable only by compiler
developers or language lawyers. That , IMO, is exactly the wrong direction.
Philipp Thomas
--
caffeine low .... brain halted
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From: kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas)
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: i18n of egcs
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372e3071.5188386@mailer.gwdg.de> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990430231500.ZDrgDZx8jNa_Tryq_lDhwEPqobKUX7fzTmuQnd0Aa8A@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199904291516.QAA16770@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:16:54 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
>Well, if at any time in the future we add an option to give verbose
>warnings / error messages that quote the appropriate section and
>paragraph of the standard, these options will be different.
Well, I at least pray that I'll never see that day. Quite a few messages
current compilers spit out are too closely modeled after the respective
parts of the standard and thus readily understandable only by compiler
developers or language lawyers. That , IMO, is exactly the wrong direction.
Philipp Thomas
--
caffeine low .... brain halted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-30 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-27 11:43 Philipp Thomas
1999-04-27 13:06 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-27 13:33 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-28 0:46 ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-28 5:37 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-28 6:05 ` craig
1999-04-28 6:47 ` alex.buell
1999-04-28 6:53 ` craig
1999-04-28 7:17 ` alex.buell
1999-04-28 15:41 ` Martin v. Loewis
1999-04-28 15:46 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-04-28 23:16 ` Martin v. Loewis
1999-04-28 23:25 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-28 23:55 ` Joe Buck
1999-04-29 8:00 ` craig
1999-04-29 8:17 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-04-30 12:40 ` Philipp Thomas [this message]
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-05-05 1:43 ` Steinar Bang
1999-05-31 21:36 ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-04-30 23:15 ` craig
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Joe Buck
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-29 13:19 ` Richard Henderson
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Richard Henderson
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Martin v. Loewis
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Martin v. Loewis
1999-04-30 23:15 ` alex.buell
1999-04-30 23:15 ` craig
1999-04-30 23:15 ` alex.buell
1999-04-28 6:54 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-30 23:15 ` craig
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Steinar Bang
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-27 22:24 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Gabriel Dos_Reis
1999-04-30 0:27 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-30 2:22 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-04-30 15:06 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-05-04 0:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-05-31 21:36 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-07-09 2:56 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-07-31 23:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Philipp Thomas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-04-28 9:17 Mike Stump
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Mike Stump
1999-04-05 17:27 Mike Stump
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Mike Stump
1999-03-25 3:43 Philipp Thomas
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-03 21:29 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-04-04 18:00 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Philipp Thomas
1999-04-30 23:15 ` Jeffrey A Law
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