On 11 July 2012 16:24, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > Going forward, perhaps when a developer outputs a diagnostic message then > the developer provides a description of the message meaning to gcc(?). > Collecting these explanations becomes the manual? Or they just make the diagnostic self-explanatory. If the diagnostic isn't clear (to someone with a working knowledge of the language and compilation process) then it should probably be reported to bugzilla and improved.