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 wi

Answer 1

check diagcc out, you can get something like this:

If your gcc ≥ 4.9, you can use argument -fdiagnostics-color=always.