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

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Marc Weustink <marc.weustink at cuperus.nl>:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST)
> > Daniël 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.

The error number is needed, yes.
But without text debugging becomes harder.


Mattias