Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:44:43 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Fleet Teachout cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: List of errors? In-Reply-To: <7a9ro1$ej4$1@gamera.cbl.umces.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 15 Feb 1999, Fleet Teachout wrote: > Is there any place I can find a list of the error messages produced by > DJGPP with comments on likely screwups? First, you must realize that DJGPP is not a single piece of software. It is a collection of development tools, most of them GNU packages ported to DOS/Windows, and libraries written specifically for DJGPP. Every package has its own schedule for releasing new versions, which are then ported to DJGPP. So there cannot be a unified list of ``messages produced by DJGPP''. But even if you are after the list of compiler error messages, there's no such list (AFAIK). However, most of these messages are pretty self-explaining, provided that you get used to the terminology. > For example: I am getting a "parse error at end of input" with a > reference to a line number one greater than the file length. ``Parse error'' means a syntax error in GCC's parlance. An error that references a line beyond the file's end usually means unbalanced parentheses or braces. Since you understood exactly that, I think that the message is indeed self-explanatory. > I have > checked (numerous times) for mismatched braces, brackets, and parentheses > - and for missing semi-colons. A sophisticated editor (which automatically detects unbalanced parens and has commands to move across balanced expressions) can help. Post the source if you cannot figure it out.