[Issue 1055] union forward reference "overlapping initialization" error

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1055





------- Comment #3 from smjg at iname.com  2007-03-12 21:21 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> This makes it possible for IDEs to automatically take you to errors 
> in your source code and the lines they are on.

TextPad manages without it.  What's more, if only all filename/lineno
references relevant to a single error are at the beginning of their lines, then
it can pinpoint all these lines - whereas if it relied on seeing the word
"Error", it probably wouldn't.

But it took me a while to get it to work on warning messages, with their
peculiar format.  I recall that I managed to do it in the end but seem to have
lost the regexp to do it.

> And if they're all prefixed with "Error" vs "SomethingElse" then 
> the IDE can also easily prioritize them so that it takes you to 
> errors first and Warnings etc later (or never).

Good point.  But still, it would depend on the IDE whether it makes any real
difference.


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