Put "Error:" before error output

[Konstantine Rybnikov]

Tuncer,

If warnings will be treated as errors it's fine to have "Error:" shown for
them, I think.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Konstantine Rybnikov wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm bringing this up once again. Can we add "Error:" in the output
> > of an error in a similar way ghc shows "Warning:" for warnings? Main
> > reasoning is that, for example, on a build-server, where you have
> > lots of cores to build your program, if you get an error, it gets
> > lost somewhere in the middle of compiler's output in all other
> > "Warning" messages you get, since error is not always shown last on
> > multi-core build.
>
> Isn't kind of a compiler convention that ""Warning:" is only prepended
> if an issue is treated as a warning. I mean, you can enable -Werror
> and treat all or specific warnings as errors as well.
>
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