On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:53, FX <fxcoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Attached patch was triggered by PR 52313 > (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52313), and tries to improve > error messages for module reading. It fixes one spelling of "GFORTRAN" --> > "GNU Fortran" and improves the error reporting of old *unversioned* format > from: > >> Parse error when checking module version for file 'blah.mod' opened at (1) > > > to: > >> Cannot read module file 'blah.mod' opened at (1), because it was created by >> an older version of GNU Fortran
What if the .mod file has been created by another compiler? Or do we have a separate error message for that? > In addition, I looked at the message emitted for old, *versioned* format: > >> Wrong module version '6' (expected '9') for file 'blah.mod' opened at (1) > > > I think this message is not actually clearer to the user than the new one, so > I substituted the new message to it too. That means we don't present the > version strings (which are currently numbers) to the user, and it also seems > better to me: those are for internal use anyway, and not documented. They're > useful only to us, and they're written in the module file anyway. Yes, showing the version number isn't really useful. -- Janne Blomqvist
