[fpc-devel] Output flush on pipes

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sun, 14 May 2006, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:

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> 
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, 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.
> 
> Why not output XML, then ? 
> 
> <fpc-output>
> <error file='name.pas' line='xyz' col='nm' code='ABC' params="X,Y,Z">Message text</error>
> <warning file='name.pas' line='xyz' col='nm' code='ABC' params="X,Y,Z">warning text</warning>
> <info file='name.pas' line='xyz' col='nm' code='ABC' params="X,Y,Z">info text</info>
> </fpc-output>
> 
> It is extensible. Many parsing tools... Just a thought.

XML requires an advanced parser and existing parsers will also produce 
complicated parser trees. (All that is needed is a sequence of key/value 
pairs, XML is a recursive tree). I'm not against it, but I have a light
preference for something simple.

Daniël