Re: Flex/Bison standardized diagnostics

[Hans Aberg]

At 15:39 +0100 2002/01/07, Akim Demaille wrote:
>>> The GNU Coding Standards, section `Errors'.
>
>Hans> Do you have a URL for this?
>
>www.gnu.org

So I figure that you are not going to cooperate much.

>Hans> I merely listed the things that might be needed in various
>Hans> applications, and clearly stated that Flex/Bison may or may not
>Hans> support that.
>
>What matters is that it is possible, not that they are tuned for
>CodeWarrior.

It is you interpreting the stuff I wrote in that way: I noticed that this
IDE is using that information, and said that the scanner should facilitate
that such information can be derived.

>I am already working for an extension of this standard to make it more
>accurate.  But that's a long walk: 1. have Bison be improved to
>support *any* location scheme, 2. explain it to RMS, 3. have Emacs
>understand it, 4. have GCC and others adjusted.
>
>That's a long walk, which has started long ago.  Stop pushing us,
>please.

So then it would be more helpful if you would have started at that point,
give the URL's of this works, so that could be used as inputs for the
non_GNU projects such as Flex.

But I think that any Flex locations support of Flex should be that of lexer
efficiency, not any GNU standards or standards proposals.

  Hans Aberg