This version of gccfilter is a derived work from Emmanuel Le Trong's gccfilter project.
Here follows the original description from Emmanuel Le Trong [email protected].
gccfilter is a perl filter to colorize and simplify (or expand) gcc diagnostic messages.
gccfilter is particularly aimed at g++ (i.e. dealinging with C++) messages which can contain lot of template-related errors or warnings difficult to sort out.
Features:
- coloring of diagnostic messages (with customizable colors),
- simplification of templated programs output: removal of "with" clauses, template arguments,
- inline replacement of template arguments by their values,
- removal of namespaces,
- removal of instantiation chains.
There exists a somewhat similar tool colorgcc. However it seems to be unmaintained for years now and does only coloring.
Note that the script relies on several perl modules, namely:
- Term::ANSIColor(3perl)
- Getopt::ArgvFile(3pm)
- Getopt::Long(3perl)
- Regexp::Common(3pm)
So far it also requires perl version 5.9.4 or above (for the "state" keyword). If it's really a problem, let me know, i'll use a closure instead.
Emmanuel Le Trong, [email protected]
Clone repo, grab gccfilter script and put it somewhere in your $PATH.
The man page is integrated in the file (type gccfilter -m). An original
man page is available in HTML, but it is slightly outdated.