From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28187 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2003 07:51:34 -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 28179 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2003 07:51:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uniton.integrable-solutions.net) (62.212.99.186) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2003 07:51:31 -0000 Received: from uniton.integrable-solutions.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uniton.integrable-solutions.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h0I7pR7C001604; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:51:28 +0100 Received: (from gdr@localhost) by uniton.integrable-solutions.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h0I7pQ6L001603; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:51:26 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: uniton.integrable-solutions.net: gdr set sender to gdr@integrable-solutions.net using -f To: Phil Edwards Cc: Gareth Pearce , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: new parser: error recovery needs work References: <20030116113344.C1BC1F2DD4@nile.gnat.com> <20030116080000.C17601@synopsys.com> <20030116141105.A12759@disaster.jaj.com> From: Gabriel Dos Reis In-Reply-To: <20030116141105.A12759@disaster.jaj.com> Organization: Integrable Solutions Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00864.txt.bz2 [ Sorry for having been absent these days ] Phil Edwards writes: | You really don't want to rely on the text of an error message not changing | over time. For this kind of thing to work, we need error messages to have | numbers (like every other compiler does, and with reason). Well, I must confess that I don't believe in numbers. Computers are very good at that, humans are not I'm afarid. Certainly we could do improvments by categoryzing diagnostics, but I'm -not- convinced that numbers are the way to go. -- Gaby