From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2326 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2004 15:48:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2319 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2004 15:48:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2004 15:48:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A99F2A12; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:48:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24577-03; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:48:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (hoosic.gnat.com [205.232.38.102]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7470F29AB; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4139E3DE.4080202@gnat.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:48:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicolas Pavlidis Cc: James E Wilson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Confusing errormessage with implicit typename References: <41390C3B.6040203@specifixinc.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nile.gnat.com X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 Nicolas Pavlidis wrote: > Mayby it is possible to improve the warning/error messages. It is quite > hard to understand some messages that gcc tells. Why not take this on as a project? (fixing this particular warning). It's not that difficult to get into the code, and I think you would find the effort instructive. Ultimately the most efficient way of getting upgrades to gcc is to do them yourself (assuming you are not in a mood to pay someone to do it for you :-)