Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:11:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Elmar Vogt <elmar DOT vogt AT rzmail DOT uni-erlangen DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Programmer's nitpicking about error messages


On 19 Dec 1995, Elmar Vogt wrote:

> That's a nice feat, but Boxer needs to find the keywords 'warning' or 
> 'error' (or any user-defined keywords...) to work properly. And DJGPP 
> emits explicit 'warnings', but no universal keyword for 'error'.
> 
> Since other advanced editors might suffer the same problem, would it be 
> possible without too much efforts to include 'error' at a defined 
> position in every error message? Would that interfere with any standard 
> formats or a desired compatibility?

The compiler included with DJGPP is the GNU C/C++ compiler.  DJGPP project 
doesn't maintain GCC, so any behavior that's not DOS-specific is due to 
generic GCC code.  Any requests to change that code should be thus posted
to the appropriate GNU Newsgroup.

Can't Boxer (whatever that is) be taught to parse GCC-style error 
messages?  Surely, if it's versatile enough, there is some mechanism of 
telling it the format of warning and error messages, because these are 
compiler-dependent.