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[Chip Rosenthal]

>>    cc1: Warning: foo.c: line 5: Inserting Missing Semicolon
>>	    printf("hello, world!\n")
>>	 ----------------------------^

Oh yeah, don't terse error messages stink.  For example, on one system
I get such wonderfully helpful diagnostic messages like this:

ccom: Error: foo.c, line 7: foobar undefined
          		(--( 	(&_iob[1]))->_cnt < 0 ?
_flsbuf((unsigned char) ((foobar)), ( 	(&_iob[1]))) :
(int) (*( 	(&_iob[1]))->_ptr++ = (unsigned char) ((foobar))));
      -----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------^

Besides, be careful what you ask for.  You might get it.  My guess is
that folks who want compilers to correct dumb mistakes have never worked
with one which did.
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