[bug #64798] [troff] "warning" with or without a colon in a diagnostic message?

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

URL:
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                 Summary: [troff] "warning" with or without a colon in a
diagnostic message?
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: bjarniig
               Submitted: Thu 19 Oct 2023 10:29:09 PM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Lint
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Thu 19 Oct 2023 10:29:09 PM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: "warning" with or without a colon in a diagnostic message?

  The gcc compiler uses a colon, so does "clang" in their "message" part
of an diagnostics.

  The "GNU coding standards" (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/)
does not show an example for the message part.

  It is better to be able to seek only one version of "warning?" and
"error?" than two.

Examples from src/...

src/roff/troff/input.cpp:      fprintf(stderr, "warning [page %d, line %d",
src/roff/troff/input.cpp:      fprintf(stderr, "warning [page %d, %.1f%c", s








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