[fpc-devel] Question on policy for compiler messages

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Okay then, thanks Jonas.  I'm still pondering on the whole 'inline' 
thing, but at the very least I think I should develop a patch for {$mode 
delphi} so it behaves the same way in FPC as it does in Delphi when it 
that mode.  For FPC and inline, it's not so simple because so much stuff 
will break or at least change behaviour unexpectedly.

Gareth aka. Kit


On 30/04/2019 20:35, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 30/04/2019 19:32, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
>
>> To the administrators in particular, what's the policy when it comes 
>> to introducing a new message (error, warning etc.) for the compiler?  
>> I know it's not as simple as simply adding it to the list, because it 
>> has to be translated into several different languages and I don't 
>> know how the compiler will react if a language pack doesn't contain a 
>> particular message (does it display the English message or crash?)
>
> It will show the English message. The English messages are embedded in 
> the compiler through msgtxt.inc/msgidx.inc, which are automatically 
> regenerated when building the compiler after changing msg/errore.msg. 
> So when adding a new message, just adding it to errore.msg is enough.
>
>
> Jonas
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