Re: new compile command doesn't coalesce errors on the same line

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Daniel Pfeiffer) writes:

> How about intervening lines, as a compiler at work gives me?  Are these still
> contiguous:
> 
> a.c:9: bla bla
>       bla bla happened here:
>       y = f( x );
>                  ^
> a.c:9: foo bar ...

IMHO, to keep things simple, I would say no.

> 
> I guess we'd need to limit the height of a contiguous block to the (most
> recently) visible lines, and ignore anything else there is within that area.

All of this sounds overly complicated.

Can't it simply be done by saying that if two or more consecutive
lines points to the same source line, it shall ignore all but the first one.


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