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How do I make Emacs recognize my compiler's funny error messages?

Write a program which runs the compiler as a child and filters its output, rearranging as necessary. Install with same name as compiler somewhere in path.

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> wrote one such for a C compiler under AIX. Available via FTP:


  /cs.utk.edu:readonly/aixcc.lex

Jim Frost <jimf@saber.com> wrote another for the IBM xlc compiler on the RS/6000. (I don't know if these are both for the same compiler.) Johnathan Vail <vail@tegra.COM> wrote something for a High C compiler (`hc', which is one of the compilers on the RS/6000, although I think Johnathan wrote his program for hc on a different computer).


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