On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 12:11:02AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Marek Polacek wrote:
>
> > What is worth mentioning is that the "(near initialization for X)"
> > message seems next to useless to me now with caret diagnostics (?).
>
> The caret diagnostics point to the initializer. "near initialization"
> says (or should say) what field GCC thinks is being initialized, which may
> not be obvious from looking at the initializer (consider a 100-element
> structure where the initializer for one element is missing, resulting in
> errors for subsequent elements having the wrong type; being told which
> element GCC thinks matches the initializer with a bad type may help you
> find where the missing initializer is).
I see, thanks. It would be nice if we could show the previous
initialization in some note message...
Marek
