On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Daniel B Mosesson <dmosess1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > daniel@daniel-Virtual-Machine:~/programming$ gcc gcc-test1.c > -fsyntax-only -fdiagnostics-show-caret > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-fdiagnostics-show-caret' > daniel@daniel-Virtual-Machine:~/programming$ gcc --version > gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 20120314-0ubuntu2) 4.8.0 20120314 (experimental) > [trunk revision 185382] > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are running sources from 20120314, nearly a year ago. The caret diagnostic code was added in April 2012. So it will be in 4.8 but it's not in the version you are testing. Sorry I didn't notice that in your original message. Ian