highlight and filter (gcc) compiler messages

Question

i\'m currently refactoring a C-project, throwing about 1000 warnings at me. is there a way to highlight and filter these warnings. (eg make all index warnings red, unused bl

Answer 1

Compiling in emacs gives you some highlighting. Presumable the details are amenable to customization.

Use M-x compile and issue you usual build command (defaults to make -k).