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From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Parsing lint error messages doesn't seem to work right
Keywords: lint, errors, parse
Message-ID: <849@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 89 19:03:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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Gnu-Emacs does a very good job of parsing compiler error messages.
But it does not seem to recognize messages from lint correctly.  On
the machine I am using, they are of the form:

file.c
==============
(69)  warning: main() returns random value to invocation environment
(117)  static variable free unused
warning: possible pointer alignment problem
    (128)  	
==============
name defined but never used
    free   	file.c(118)

Is this different from the output of other lints?  I tried looking at
the code in compile.el but could not get very far.  Right now, I am
piping this stuff through sed to convert it into a format emacs will
understand!  I guess there must be a better way -- I'd be glad
for any pointers on this.

I am using Gnu-Emacs 18.51 on HP-UX (SysV + BSD enhancements) if
that's relevant.  Thanks very much.

-- 
Govind N. Kamat				College of Engineering
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU			University of Cincinnati
					Cincinnati OH USA 45221