[fpc-devel] Output flush on pipes

[Florian Klaempfl]

Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Sunday 14 May 2006 16.54, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>> The error numbers didn't change, they are keep unique.
>>
>> I propose to do the following:
>> - add an option -vm (machine readable output)
>> Using this option the compiler outputs the messages csv like and flushes
>> after each message:
>> message type <tab> file <tab> line <tab> column <tab> error number <tab>
>> complete error message <tab> message template (i.e. Type $1 expected, $2
>> found <tab> parameter 1 <tab> parameter 2 <tab> parameter n
>>
>> To avoid trouble with future versions, a header line will describe each
>> column.
> 
> I need no machine readable output (up to now), I need a way to get flushed 
> writeln output from the RTL on widows to display it in the MSEide message 
> window (compiler output) and the target window (program output).
> On linux I use a PTY to connect compiler and target -> all is OK, on win32 I 
> can only use pipes AFAIK where the RTL doesn't flush output on writeln.

I don't think that it is wise to flush always when writing to pipes only
for the compiler. -vm could for now force an additional flush.