Re: Emacs and GFortran

[David Kastrup]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  > There is still an off-by-one error; we number the first column as 1 
>  > rather than 0.  Given that there's a very strong tradition in Fortran of 
>  > numbering columns starting with 1, and that off-by-one errors in column 
>  > location are within the noise level of locating things (given that 
>  > nearly all errors are several columns wide), I think it makes more sense 
>  > overall to keep it the way it currently is.
>
> I see now this is the right way anyway (from "Formatting Error Messages"
> in standards.info):
>
>   Line numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the file, and
>   column numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the line.

Then disregard my previous mail.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum