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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 04:21:29 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] once is enough: VOID
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One day I'll fix cc so it's diagnostics are more like those of cyntax.
A diagnostic should indicate the culprit, not where the parser
was when the semantic analysis was done.

Then again one day dumb-ass airline will show up with my luggage.

Consider yourself lucky.  I spent half a day trying to work out what
a gcc diagnostic meant and eventually cracked open a six pack
and wrote the entire file again from scratch - discarding the first
attempt.  Never did find out what the message meant.

brucee

On 5/14/05, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:
> I just spent 20 minutes figuring out what the above warning meant.
> The line number given in the warning is incorrect, so it took the 20
> minutes before I noticed that I had used the keyword `void' twice for
> a function type a few lines below the last line of the previous
> function, which was the line in the warning message.
>=20
> Hope this saves someone else their 20 minutes.
>=20
>  Brantley