Objective-C and compilation errors messages

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4 total messages Started by Olivier BORDES Fri, 26 Oct 1990 09:02

#140

Author: Olivier BORDES
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 09:02

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I am tired of these stupid (to not say more) error messages provided
by the objective-C compiler !

I enjoyed messages like:

	"Illegal syntax at or near @implementation" 
	
when the error is in fact located far before the '@implementation' keyword
(located in one of the imported files imported at the beginning of the file).

or message like ...
	"expected ) found toto."

... this message appears after a declaration like:
	toto * pointer;
and means that the type toto has not been declared before !
Could'nt the compiler say that the type 'toto' has not been defined
before ?

Even now, with two years pratice of Objective-C, I am tired of
the incoherence of these error messages.
Please Stepstone, do something for error messages in your compiler !!!



Olivier_Bordes@hpgnd.hp.com             (Hewlett-Packard Grenoble)

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Re: Objective-C and compilation errors messages

#144

Author: Lee Sailer
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 16:01

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In article <20850002@hpgnd.HP.COM>, bordes@hpgnd.HP.COM (Olivier BORDES) says:

>or message like ...
>        "expected ) found toto."

>... this message appears after a declaration like:
>        toto * pointer;
>and means that the type toto has not been declared before !
>Could'nt the compiler say that the type 'toto' has not been defined
>before ?


The "right" way to handle this is for the ID of the error message to
be listed in an error message manual.  There should be a discussion, perhaps
even a fairly long one, of all of the ways that programmers screw up
that produce that particular message.

Better yet, this "manual" that explains all the ways to produce a
particular message should be online.

                                    lee

Public Domain Objective C

#150

Author: gil
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 1990 13:59

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Does anyone know if there are any PD objective-c
translators/compilers, perhaps from the Free Software Foundation?

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Re: Public Domain Objective C

#151

Author: William Lewis
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 05:11

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In article <1990Oct31.135951.19419@jts.com> gil@jts.com (gil) writes:
>Does anyone know if there are any PD objective-c
>translators/compilers, perhaps from the Free Software Foundation?

   Rumor ( =8) ) has it that the next release of gcc will support
objective-C (named something else, because apparently Stepstone has
rights to the name "Obj-C" .... ) but that they're having trouble
reimplimenting the runtimes. Anyone else know more about this? It seems
to me that at one point someone involved woth the project was posting
here ...

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