[fpc-devel] Proposal to make the compiler message "PPU Invalid Version" a fatal error.

Marc Weustink marc.weustink at cuperus.nl
Mon Aug 18 11:29:56 CEST 2008


Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST)
> Daniƫl Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>>> The text mode IDE can display statisics while compiling. Why can't
>>>> Lazarus?
>>>>
>>>> There is the compiler unit, which *is* available, and this is the
>>>> only officially supported compiler interface. We are not against
>>>> other officially supported interfaces, but parsing messages is
>>>> definately not an offical interface and recommended against. It is
>>>> not the first time we have this discussion, we discussed possible
>>>> protocols before.
>>> Can you give a link?
>> http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2006-May/007788.html
> 
> Thanks.
> The thread did not discuss all problems, but it has one good idea:
> We need a machine readable output format for fpc.
> Any progress?

IIRC, we once had the idea to feed the compiler an error message file 
with only error numbers as error "messages" so parsing would be easier.

Marc




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