• Steve Teale (16/16) Dec 31 2009 DMD/GCD (1.30) produce error/warning messages that are not consistent. F...
• Walter Bright (2/3) Dec 31 2009 They should be put in bugzilla regardless.
• Steve Teale (2/6) Jan 01 2010 Will do. Happy New Year Walter.

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

DMD/GCD (1.30) produce error/warning messages that are not consistent. For
example, if there is an error, with DMD you see:

fixups.d(50): unrecognized declaration

but for a warning:

warning - fixups.d(37): Error: implicit conversion of expression (atoi(t)) of
type long to int can cause loss of data

(GDC uses another colon and no parentheses for the line number.)

The first case, which is an error, does not contain the word error, but the
second, which isn't, does.

I think this makes life difficult for IDEs that parse the compiler output. For
example, in Code::Blocks, the file name in the message window appears as
'warning - fixups.d', the message is shown as an error, and the error/warning
counts are incorrect. It also screws up the ability to click on the message and
have the editor jump to the indicated line number, and marking of error/warning
lines. There might be similar problems with debuggers.

The GCC C compiler in contrast produces error and warning messages as follows:

hello.c:13: error: expected expression before '}' token
hello.c:13: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Disambiguation and structure in this case are quite clear.

Also, many IDEs report both the number of errors and the number of warnings.
This can't work with D and a message parsing IDE, since when you specify error
reporting

dmd -w -c x.d
gdc -Wall -c x.d

if there are errors you only see the errors, even though there are preceding
points in the code that should produce warnings. GCC C behaves the same in this
respect, so it may be a hallowed tradition.

Are these bugs?

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 Are these bugs?

They should be put in bugzilla regardless.

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Steve Teale wrote:
 Are these bugs?

 
 They should be put in bugzilla regardless.

Will do. Happy New Year Walter.