From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
Cc: Tim Hollebeek <tim@hollebeek.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Really crummy error messages, was Re: Ada files now checked in
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g08rn7y4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011010163133.B5189@hg.cs.mu.oz.au>
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
>> > > test.c:1: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> > > test.c:1: for each function it appears in.)
>> how about --verbose-errors, and have both a one-line and paragraph
>> explanation of each error?
> We've used almost exactly that approach in the Mercury compiler,
> and IMHO it works reasonably well.
The Ada compiler writes "(more references follow)" if the same
undeclared identifier is referenced multiple times. Such an error
message is probably most helpful in this context, but I don't know if
you can implement it for the C compiler easily.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-07 14:34 Phil Edwards
2001-10-07 23:01 ` Really crummy error messages Florian Weimer
2001-10-08 11:09 ` Really crummy error messages, was Re: Ada files now checked in Zack Weinberg
2001-10-08 13:31 ` Phil Edwards
2001-10-08 16:49 ` Tim Hollebeek
2001-10-09 23:32 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-10-10 2:25 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-10-10 11:00 ` Phil Edwards
2001-10-11 14:04 ` Zack Weinberg
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