ac> The most perplexing warning I've come across lately was from WATCOM C while 
ac> compiling the Binkley 2.60 source code.  "Pointer
truncated".  The BTPE 
ac> diffs came in handy there (thanks!), but only after I had worked out what 

Was that the far pointers?

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

I've just tried my 4 main C compilers for OS/2, and only CSET
does that...

#include 

int main(void)
{
    printf("There is a strange" FRED);
    return (0);
}

zatest.c(5:33) : error EDC0349: Unexpected text FRED ignored.


BFN.  Paul.
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