:Shankar Unni wrote:
:James Dennett wrote:
:
:> [...] a compiler [...] which terminated
:> successful, error-free runs by printing "None of the errors
:> were found."  A good warning, if ever I saw one.
:
:Or, you could even go so far as the Metrowerks 5 C++ compiler, which
:emits a message at the end of a successful compilation saying
:
:   ERROR: 0 errors
:

Wow, I can't believe this.
Is it really that way ?
Shouldn't the standard define two types of diagnostics - one for violations
of the standard and second for compiler specific ones and demand they are
distinc ? To prohibit such behaviour like this given above the standard
should also define that legal program can't cause first type of diagnostics.
I think this is minimum the standard should give users of C++ in this
subject.

Piotr Dobrogost


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In article <9hfhjt$g65$1@news.tpi.pl>,
Piotr Dobrogost <pbc@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>:Shankar Unni wrote:
>:James Dennett wrote:
>:
>:> [...] a compiler [...] which terminated
>:> successful, error-free runs by printing "None of the errors
>:> were found."  A good warning, if ever I saw one.
>:
>:Or, you could even go so far as the Metrowerks 5 C++ compiler, which
>:emits a message at the end of a successful compilation saying
>:
>:   ERROR: 0 errors
>:
>
>Wow, I can't believe this.
>Is it really that way ?
>Shouldn't the standard define two types of diagnostics - one for violations
>of the standard and second for compiler specific ones and demand they are
>distinc ? To prohibit such behaviour like this given above the standard
>should also define that legal program can't cause first type of diagnostics.
>I think this is minimum the standard should give users of C++ in this
>subject.

Compiler user interface issues like this are much better left to market
forces than standards bodies.

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