Is there any way to get readable gcc error and warning output at the command line?

Question

For some long errors, the gcc output is dense and has lots of line-wrapping etc. Especially when errors are subtle, it can take me 10-30 seconds of squinting to parse it with my eyes.

I've taken to pasting this in an open code-editor window to get some basic syntax highlighting and enable reformatting with regex's.

Has anyone invented a more automated method?

Answer 1

If your errors are template related, take a look at STLfilt:

• http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html

Answer 2

I've found colorgcc to be invaluable. By introducing coloring, it becomes much easier to mentally parse the text of gcc error messages, especially when templates are involved.

Answer 3

gccfilter does coloring & simplification of messages.

http://www.mixtion.org/gccfilter/