[fpc-devel] Unhelpful error message

[Sven Barth]

On 02.12.2012 15:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:46:54 +0000
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I've just had a slight problem compiling Lazarus where FPC was
>>> reporting this:
>>>
>>> main.pp(5001,1) Fatal: Syntax error, "BEGIN" expected but "shl" found
>>>
>>> The reason was that I'd not spotted that Subversion had inserted a
>>> like like
>>>
>>> <<<<< Mine:
>>>
>>> preceding a function. Is this something that the compiler could
>>> detect and warn about?
>>
>> It seems it just did?
>> What error message do you expect?
>
> Something that recognises that a message like  <<<<<<< .mine  originates
> from the project's chosen VCS, and that <<<<<<< is distinct from shl.
>

This is the same as the discussion about whether FPC could support "#" 
at the first line for shebanging for instantfpc. In short: in will not 
happen. It's your own responsibility to keep versioned files conflict 
free and yes, I had this problem myself already as well.

Regards,
Sven