Message ordering in 'Problems' view

[awneil]

As previously noted:

@awneil

Note that the “Problems” view seems to do some kind of re-ordering of the error messages, so that they do not appear in a sensible order!

For example, the compiler would actually report “can’t find header file xyz.h” first, and then give a whole load of consequent errors like “‘ascii’ not defined” - ie, the symptoms follow the cause.
But the “Problems” view seems to mess-up that order, so that symptoms come first - eg, “‘ascii’ not defined” - and the actual cause does not appear until waaaaaaaaaaay down the list!

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@awneil

In the actual compiler output, these [messages] would appear in order - making it clear(er) what’s happening:

• First, the “assumed int” message;
• later, a “doesn’t match previous definition” message;
• immediately after that, the “previous definition was here” message

But M2MStudio re-orders the messages in the ‘Problems’ view - so that related messages appear neither in order nor together!!
IMO, this is a really counter-productive feature!

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Can someone explain what’s actually going on here - and, preferably, fix it?!

[daav]

We agree that CDT’s Problems View default behaviour is far from being really ergonomic and intuitive.
Please be sure we are aware of that and we will try to tune this behaviour (or make it more easier to tune) in a future release.

Meanwhile, you can tune it by yourself in some clicks:

• In the View Menu of the Problems View, go to Configure Content.
• In the Configurations list, select the Errors/Warning on selection one, and click OK.
• –> from now, the problems view content is related to the currently selected item in the Prject Explorer. You can select a project to get all its errors, or select a given file to focus on its specific errors.
• From now, you just need to order the problems by Location, to get something similar to the true compiler output.

Hope it helps.