ac> what the problem was.  Took me a while.  It'd be nice
 ac> to see a compiler that not only displayed the source
 ac> code line where there is a compiler error or warning,
 ac> but also the column. 

Watcom does actually give you the column; or at least, mine does. It does
not, however, display the source line.

OTOH, IBM's compilers all do, if you feed them a command line switch (-z,
from memory) to turn that feature on. It also issues horrifyingly long
multi-line error messages, sometimes complete with reference to the section
on ISO-C which might apply.

I find neither of these features particularly useful when working with the
compiler in 99.9% of ordinary programming and development work.

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